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Table 1. Hardware, software, and licensing requirements
| Requirements |
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| Hardware |
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| Catalyst wireless controllers |
9800-80 9800-40 9800-L-C 9800-L-F |
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| Catalyst and Aironet® wireless access points |
Catalyst 9136 Series Catalyst 9166 Series Catalyst 9164 Series Catalyst 9163 Series Catalyst 9162 Series |
Catalyst 9130 Series Catalyst 9124 Series Catalyst 9120 Series Catalyst 9117 Series Catalyst 9115 Series Catalyst 9105 Series |
Aironet 4800 Series Aironet 3800 Series Aironet 2800 Series |
| Software |
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Cisco IOS® XE 17.12.3 |
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| Licensing |
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Cisco DNA Essentials Cisco DNA Advantage |
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● Seamless onboarding with Meraki tunnel and automatic access point onboarding per controller.
● Wireless controller operations featuring live access point and client counts, high-availability single sign-on health and performance health monitoring, and assurance.
● Access point operations with live clients and radio utilization monitoring and performance health and assurance.
● Client and application operations with client Layer 7 visibility, connection, and performance health monitoring.
● Identify and troubleshoot issues remotely with remote monitoring via Meraki dashboard.
Table 2. Firmware and scale support1
| Wireless LAN controller |
Meraki dashboard |
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| Firmware: IOS XE 17.12.3 / 17.15.1 or later |
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| Catalyst 9800-L |
Up to 250 access points/3000 clients |
25,000 total devices per organization |
| Catalyst 9800-40 |
Up to 1300 access points/10,000 clients |
1000 devices per network |
| Catalyst 9800-80 |
Up to 2000 access points/20,000 clients |
50,000 clients per network |