The hard part was never coverage
It is what has to keep working while people and devices move
A campus network carries students who roam across buildings, medical devices that cannot be re-authenticated mid-shift, contractors who should reach exactly one VLAN, and a lecture hall that goes from empty to two thousand clients in four minutes. Segmentation usually means a switch refresh nobody budgeted for, and every incident starts with an argument about whether it is the Wi-Fi.
Two constraints shape everything here: you cannot rip out the wired infrastructure to get segmentation, and you cannot hire your way out of the operations load.
Where to start
Four solutions that fit an estate you cannot rebuild
SD-AccessZero trust on the switches you ownA policy fabric laid over the existing wired estate, so identity-based segmentation arrives without a forklift upgrade of the access layer.AIOpsA network that explains itselfRoot cause instead of raw alarms, so a two-person team can run an estate that normally needs six — and so "is it the Wi-Fi" gets an answer.IoT ConvergenceOne install, every radioLoRaWAN, BLE and UWB in the same access point. Asset tracking, staff safety and building sensors ride the Wi-Fi rollout instead of funding a second one.SecurityBuilt in, not bolted onThe IDL DPI engine identifies 3,600+ protocols and applications, feeding content control, policy enforcement and the audit trail a public institution has to keep.
Built for the density
10,000access points manageable from a single controller deployment
3,600+protocols and applications identified by the DPI engine, including encrypted and industrial traffic
Wi-Fi 5 / 6 / 7indoor and outdoor access points on one platform and one management plane
What you would be deploying
Technical reading
Products
- IAC700E / IAC700B — WLAN controllers
- CloudOS — controller on x86 or cloud
- IAP7094 / IAP6030 — Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 access points
- ISG200-F — security gateway
- ISW series — PoE access switches
Planning a campus refresh?
Send us a floor plan and a client count rather than a headcount — density and roaming behaviour decide the design far more than the number of users does.
Talk to our team