{"id":11912,"date":"2015-09-18T08:13:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:53:42","slug":"zebra-launches-wing-5-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/zebra-launches-wing-5-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebra Launches WiNG 5.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/zebra\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.barcodesinc.com\/images\/models\/lg\/Zebra\/nx5500-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"126\" align=\"right\" \/>Zebra<\/a> has announced the launch of the WiNG 5.8 software release. WiNG 5.8 is a major software release for the WLAN portfolio of products delivering a variety of new features and capabilities including: Zebra NSight \u00e2\u20ac\u201ca new network visualization engine with rich analytics that makes it easier than ever to manage and troubleshoot your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/cats\/wireless-networking.htm\">WLAN<\/a>; Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to give you complete control over the applications that are running on your WLAN and fine-tune\/rate-limit based on the business need; a full-featured Guest access solution with self-registration, support for social media login credentials for guest access and large data-store for guest user profile; Mobile extension enhancements for better wireless experience for Zebra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/cats\/mobile-computing.htm\">mobile devices<\/a>; Centralized EX-3500 switch management through NX.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 5.8 release supports following new hardware platforms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/zebra\/nx5500.htm\">NX-5500<\/a> &#8211; Services platform for small\/mid-sized environment with capacity up to 512 APs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/zebra\/nx5500e.htm\">NX-5500E <\/a>&#8211; WiNG Express Manager for multi-site deployments with capacity up to 512 Express APs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Features and Benefits<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Zebra NSight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Network Visualization, Monitoring, Reporting and Troubleshooting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visualizing network statistics and events &#8211; Simplified and unified network views based on user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role. 20+ configurable widgets to view various trend charts and graphs on the network and user stats : utilization, bandwidth, client count and client mix, RF health\/utilization, application visibility\/usage by client\/WLAN\/AP\/summary, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Custom live updating dashboards for every role<\/li>\n<li>Live troubleshooting tools \u00e2\u20ac\u201d packet capture, wireless debug logs, TCP\/IP ping and traceroute<\/li>\n<li>Interactive floor maps with support for heat maps and the ability to visualize the RF attributes and identify issues \/ problems areas<\/li>\n<li>Real-time and historic trend analysis to simplify network growth planning<\/li>\n<li>Exceptionally responsive interface \u00e2\u20ac\u201d virtually any information is just a few clicks away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guest Access \/ Captive Portal Enhancements <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guest Self Registration\n<ul>\n<li>Device registration with (optional) one-time-password<\/li>\n<li>User registration with email\/mobile number as user identity<\/li>\n<li>Passcode notification over Email and\/or SMS o Social authentication based registration<\/li>\n<li>Customizable registration forms (name, email, mobile, member, location, age, custom, and more)<\/li>\n<li>Opt-out option for guests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Social Authentication \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Facebook and Google<\/li>\n<li>Mobile friendly web portal with template customization (color, banner, preview)<\/li>\n<li>External success URL<\/li>\n<li>Analytics and capacity up to 2M client identity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application Visibility and Control (AVC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Deep-Packet-Inspection engine on the Access Point such as 802.11ac AP (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/ap7532.htm\">AP 7532<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/ap7522.htm\">AP 7522<\/a>, AP 7562) and on the Controllers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/zebra\/nx5500.htm\">NX-5500<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/nx-7500.htm\">NX-7500<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/nx9500.htm\">NX-9500<\/a>, NX-9600), provides visibility and control over layer-7 applications right at the edge.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitates detecting and classifying applications with support for dynamic signatures and the IT admins can leverage the application context to create effective rules to fine-tune access to the wireless network, providing service differentiation and network capacity planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mobile Extension Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coverage Hole Detection -\u00c2\u00a0Client Assisted Diagnostics enhancement that uses 802.11k standards and adds Zebra specific WiNG Extensions to provide report on potential wireless infrastructure issues. Works with Zebra Mobile devices<\/li>\n<li>Roaming Optimizations -\u00c2\u00a0Assisted Roaming: Enhanced roaming for sticky clients with 802.11v standards support. Works with any client device that supports 802.11v. Scan Assist and Fast BSS transition: WiNG Extensions to 802.11k and 802.11r standards to support faster scanning over DFS channels and fast roaming. Works only with Zebra mobile devices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/mc18.htm\">MC18<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/mc40.htm\">MC40<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/mc9200.htm\">MC9200<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Centralized EX3500 Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Centralized EX-3500 Ethernet switch management from the NX and VX platforms<\/li>\n<li>Adoption, provisioning and monitoring of EX-3500 switches along side WiNG APs for unified view of the network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Network feature enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EAP Termination -\u00c2\u00a0Adds support to terminate EAP session on a Proxy RADIUS server and allow authentication on the external RADIUS for flexible deployment.<\/li>\n<li>Increase max VLANs per WLAN -\u00c2\u00a0Increases the number of VLANs in a pool from 16 to 32 to support high density deployments<\/li>\n<li>Traffic Shaping -\u00c2\u00a0Adds support for traffic shaping that can be applied to any locally bridged or tunneled traffic (both wired and wireless) through the device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Client Bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides secure wireless connectivity to multiple devices without wireless interface.<\/li>\n<li>Supported on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/ap6522.htm\">AP-6522<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/motorola\/ap-6562.htm\">AP-6562<\/a> platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Centralized T5 Management Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Additional monitoring and provisioning from the central NX\/VX platforms including : range command for the DSL ports, scheduled reload, VLAN override by RF domain, and show commands \u00e2\u20ac\u201c show wireless clients, show MAC table<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zebra has announced the launch of the WiNG 5.8 software release. 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