Layer 7 Application Control

This product supports Layer 7 application control, performed by the flow-based Deep-Packet Inspection (DPI) engine on the access points. The DPI engine core is the same engine used with ExtremeControl and ExtremeAnalytics, and uses the same Application ID database, containing over 3300 fingerprints and identifying over 2,000 distinct applications.

Note

The DPI engine recognizes hundreds of distinct applications.

Flow-based Application Control

Policy enforcement is extended to IPv6 traffic, with similar capabilities for advanced rule syntax as IPv4 rules. However, the Redirect action is only available for IPv4.

Applications policies and rules are configured using the ExtremeCloud management interface. Applications are organized as groups, and the actions that are applied to a group are applies to all of the applications in that group.