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Embedded Wireless Controller (EWC) on Catalyst APs Feature List Per Release

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Updated:December 7, 2020
Document ID:215971

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Introduction

This document lists the features supported on Embedded Wireless Controllers on Catalyst 9100 Series APs in each IOS-XE release starting Gibraltar 16.12.2. Each feature is only mentioned in the release it was first introduced with subsequent releases only listing changes to the given feature.

Features in each IOS-XE release

Bengaluru - 17.4.1

  • Custom webauth bundle is now copied to the standby EWC as well
  • Enabling USB Port on Access Points
  • User and Entity Behavior Analysis
  • Support of Embedded Wireless Controller to run on 9105 APs
  • end of support of 11ac wave 1 access points

Amsterdam - 17.3.2

  • Smart Licensing using Policy

Amsterdam - 17.3.1

  • Both Uplink and Downlink Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (UL OFDMA and DL OFDMA) features are supported in Cisco Catalyst 9130 APs in this release. Currently limited to support eight users in a DL OFDMA or UL OFDMA transmission. In this release, 37 users are supported in the 80-MHz and 160-MHz bandwidths.
  • Uplink Multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (UL MU MIMO) feature is supported in Cisco Catalyst 9130 APs in this release.
  • mDNS gateway support
  • AP image predownload status enhancement
  • Certificate management enhanced page
  • Web UI Dark mode
  • 9105 AP support

Amsterdam - 17.2.1

  • Workgroup bridge Client support on EWC-AP
  • Flexible Netflow Exporter
  • WLAN webUI Simplification - only mandatory settings under Basic Setup
  • Aironet IE support
  • SMU: APSP pack is not supported

Amsterdam - 17.1.1s

  • Software upgrade from cisco.com repository
  • Support for SCP and SFTP as methods to upload core files
  • Periodic scheduled download of controller configuration
  • AP device pack support
  • Ipv6 support
  • HTTPS, DNS and URL filtering support for ACLs
  • Day0 PnP configuration download support
  • Controller Software Maintenance Package support for the Controller
  • Support for Natting wireless clients through a Master AP
  • TLS 1.2 support for local EAP authentication
  • Support for Umbrella integration

Gilbraltar - 16.12.4a

  • There are no new features in this release

Gilbraltar - 16.12.3

  • There are no new features in this release

Gilbraltar - 16.12.2s

First release to support Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst APs

TAC Authored

Contributed by Cisco Engineers

  • Sudha Katgeri
    Cisco TAC
  • Nicolas Darchis
    Cisco TAC

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