ExtremeCloud Tunnel Concentrator enables the setup of traffic ingress/egress from wireless users at specific points in the network. Client traffic is exchanged between wireless access points and the Tunnel Concentrator instance via tunnels. For deployments that are managed by ExtremeCloud IQ, the tunneling supported is GRE (encapsulation). For deployments that are managed by ExtremeCloud IQ Controller, the tunneling is supported as IPsec.
1130C - Small (up to 1000 tunnels per appliance)
2130C - Medium (up to 5000 tunnels per appliance)
3150C - Medium (up to 5,000 tunnels per appliance)
4120C - Large (up to 15,000 tunnels per appliance)
Tunnel Concentrator provides the following benefits:
Centralizes wireless traffic.
Isolates data traffic from management traffic.
Extends the data center network to your edge devices.
Provides a replacement for some VPN Gateway Virtual Appliance (VGVA) tunneling use cases.
Enables traffic tunneling to specific points in the network, abstracting the location of the access points.
Removes the need to have All Client access VLANs present at every access point.
Provides an option for traffic aggregation in situations where it is cost prohibitive to deploy fabric mesh infrastructure or VxLAN switching.
For more product details on ExtremeCloud Tunnel Concentrator, see Product Details.