ME and EWC Feature Comparison Matrix
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ME and EWC Feature Comparison Matrix
This document lists support and comparison information for various features in Mobility Express (ME) and Embedded Wireless Controller (EWC) on the Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points in Cisco IOS XE releases.
This document is updated for Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.1.1
| Category |
Features |
Platform |
|
| ME |
EWC (on C9100) |
||
| Management |
WebUI |
YES |
16.12.2 |
| Mobile App |
YES (Cisco Wireless) |
16.12.2 (Cisco Catalyst Wireless) |
|
| Prime Infrastructure |
YES |
NO |
|
| DNA Center (Appliance) |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Programmability (Netconf+Yang) |
NO |
16.12.2 |
|
| SNMP |
YES |
NO |
|
| AP Modes |
Local Mode |
NO |
NO |
| Flexconnect Mode |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Mesh Mode |
YES |
NO |
|
| Sniffer Mode |
NO |
NO |
|
| Monitor Mode |
NO |
16.12.2 |
|
| Infrastructure |
CDP, LLDP |
YES |
NO |
| AP PnP |
YES (not for AP1540/1560) |
16.12.2 |
|
| Pre-Image Download |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Client IPv6 |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Native IPv6 |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| FIPS Certification |
Yes (2800/3800/1560 - 8.5) |
NO |
|
| Internal DHCP Server (For Site Survey Usecase) |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| DHCP Option 82 |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Security & Authentication |
WPA-PSK |
YES |
16.12.2 |
| 802.1x (WPA2 / AES) |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| 802.1x (WPA2 / TKIP) |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| WPA3 |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Identity PSK |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| multiPSK (mPSK) on single SSID |
NO |
16.12.2 |
|
| Internal Webauth |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| External Webauth |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Central Webauth |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
|
|
DNS Pre-Auth ACL |
YES |
16.12.2 |
| WEP |
Deprecated |
Deprecated |
|
| Peer-to-Peer Blocking |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| 802.11r |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| 802.11k |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| 802.11v BSS Transition Management |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| 802.11v DMS |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| RLAN Guest |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| WLAN to VLAN mapping |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| TACACS |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Radius Server per WLAN |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Backup Radius Servers |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| CCKM |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| User idle timeout per WLAN |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Services |
AVC–Mark, Drop, RL |
YES |
16.12.2 |
| AAA Override–VLAN |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| AAA Override– ACL, QoS |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| AAA Override– Session Timeout |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| AAA Override BW contract |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Local Profiling |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| RADIUS Profiling |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Per-User Bandwidth Contract |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Per-SSID Bandwidth contract |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| VideoStream |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| CAC, WMM Policy |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Adaptive 11r |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Fastlane |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| MAC Authentication |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| 802.11u |
YES |
NO |
|
| mDNS Policy |
YES |
NO |
|
| DNS ACL |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Capwap-mode to Controller-mode Conversion |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Efficient AP join |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Software Update via SFTP/TFTP/HTTP/CCO |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Rogue Detection |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Passive Clients |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Schedule WLAN |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
|
|
mDNS |
YES |
17.3.1 |
| Deny Wireless Client Session Establishment Using Calendar Profiles |
YES |
17.1.1s |
|
| RadSec (DTLS) |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| RF and Radio |
RRM–DCA, TPC, CHDM |
YES |
16.12.2 |
| FRA |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Band Select |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Load Balancing |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| RF Profiles |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Optimized Roaming |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| RX–SOP |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| DBS |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Off-channel Scanning |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Off-channel Scan Defer |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Flex-DFS |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| ClientLink |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| A-MSDU/A-MPDU aggregation config per priority |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| UL OFDMA |
NA |
16.12.2 |
|
| DL OFDMA |
NA |
16.12.2 |
|
| TWT |
NA |
YES for 9130 |
|
| BSS Coloring |
NA |
17.1.1s |
|
| Resiliency |
High Availability |
YES |
16.12.2 (Active/Standby pre-elected) |
| Force Failover to Specific Master |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Preferred Master |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| Hot / Cold Patching |
NO |
17.1.1s |
|
| AP Service Pack (APSP) |
NO |
17.1.1s |
|
| AP Device Pack (APDP) |
NO |
17.1.1s |
|
| Solution Integration |
Cisco Umbrella |
YES |
17.1.1s |
| aWIPS |
NO |
17.1.1s |
|
| CMX/DNA Spaces - location analytics |
YES |
16.12.2 |
|
| CMX/DNA Spaces - Captive Portal |
YES |
16.12.2 |
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