Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Installation Guide

Summary of Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Features

Table 1. Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Features

Feature

Description

Chassis Height

One rack-unit (1RU)

Throughput

4 Gbps

Note

While the mGig port supports 5-Gbps PHY rate, data plane performance is limited to 4 Gbps

Number of APs supported

150

Number of clients supported

3000

Processor

Cavium Network Processor—CN7240-AAP 8-core, 1.5 GHz

Memory Options

Control/Data Plane Memory—8GB DDR4
Boot Flash—8MB SPI NOR Serial Boot
Bulk Flash—32GB eMMC

Redundancy, Service Ports

2x 1G Cu

Data Ports

1x 5G/mGig Cu, 4x 1G Cu (2 ports 802.3at PSE)

Storage Temperature

–4° F to 158° F (–20° C to 70° C)

Operating Temperature

32° F to 104° F (0° C to 40° C)

Storage Humidity

0% to 95% RH non-condensing

Operating Humidity

5% to 95% RH non-condensing

Power Adapter

54VDC/1.05A, 12VDC/3.75A

Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Front Panel

Table 2. Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Front Panel Components

Service Port LED

Redundancy Port LED

Service Port (SP) (RJ-45) for out-of-band management

Redundancy Port (RP) (RJ-45).

Note

The redundancy ports can be connected back to back or via an L2 switch.

CPU console port, which is an RS-232 port that supports an RJ-45 connector. At boot-up, the controller configures the RS-232 port as a console port with default settings of 9600, N, 8, 1. The boot-loader supports baud rates of 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, and 115200. A default baud-rate recovery mechanism is not available; however, the bootloader ensures that the stored baud rate setting matches one of the allowed values before setting the baud rate. If a nonstandard value is detected, the baud rate will default to 9600.

Mini-B USB console port that can be used to perform software updates in addition to the already available transfer modes, namely HTTP, TFTP, FTP, and SFTP.

Note

If the Mini-B USB console port is used, the CPU console port that supports RJ-45 connector is ignored. That is, only one of the two ports are ever active.

If you connect to both Mini-B USB port and the CPU console port, then the CPU console port takes precedence.

Type A 3.0 USB port used to perform software updates in addition to already available transfer mode, namely HTTP, TFTP, FTP, and SFTP.

1x 5 G/mGig port. This mGig port supports speeds of 5G, 2.5G, and 1G.

Note

In a High Availability environment, it is not possible to change the configured port speed.

9 and 10

GigE ports

Gigabit Ethernet ports 1 and 2 are RJ-45 connector form-factors. These ports are designed so that 1500 VAC rms isolation (per the 802.3 specification) is met between chassis ground and any 48V/Ethernet signal.

11 and 12

GigE PoE PSE ports

Gigabit Ethernet ports 3 and 4 are 802.3at PoE-capable PSE ports, using RJ-45 connector form-factors.

Note

The ports can be used for infra-switch connection using multiple an AP-Manager or data interface.

Reset button

Pushing the Reset button for less than 10 seconds resets the controller.
Pushing the Reset button for more than 10 seconds restores the controller to factory default configuration.

System LED that determines if the system is powered up.

Alarm LED that determines a status or error occurred. The status or error is posted on the console screen.

High Availability LED

Note

Wait at least 20 seconds before reconnecting an access point to the controller. Otherwise, the controller may fail to detect the device.
We recommend that you configure an AP-Manager interface per port.
Precautions for the direct AP connection: Do not configure interfaces on the physical ports, if AP is connected to the port. If an interface is configured on the port where AP is connected, the behavior is undefined. If the physical ports are configured, remove it and reload the controller.

Direct AP connection is not supported in a High Availability scenario.

Link Aggregation

In Cisco 3504 WLCs, the default speed configuration of the mGig port is 1000 Mb. To allow 2.5 Gb or 5 Gb operation, you have to change the maximum port speed configuration. To do this, on the WLC CLI, enter the config port maxspeed port-number command, or on the WLC GUI, navigate to Controller > Ports and then specify the maximum speed for the relevant port number.

Cisco 3504 WLC allows the use of the mGig port and the Gigabit ports in combination, and LAG is supported across all 5 ports. However, if the maximum speed of the mGig port is increased, the Cisco 3504 WLC will automatically decrease the maximum speed of the Gigabit ports per table below.

Table 3. Port-Speed Combination Specifications
mGig	Port 1	Port 2	Port 3	Port 4
1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
2500	1000	1000	100	100
5000	100	100	100	100

LAG is supported across all 5 ports. When LAG is enabled, the individual port speeds will follow the table above.

Front Panel LEDs: Definitions of States

Table 4. System LED Indicators
Color	Description
Off	System not receiving power.
Blinking Green	System boot
Blinking Amber	Boot-loader is active and waiting for user input from the system console

Table 5. Alarm LED Indicators
Color	Description
Blinking Green	Controller image upgrade
Amber	Controller status activity, such as firmware upgrade
Blinking Amber	Controller error. For example, a temperature error exists.

Table 6. High Availability LED Indicators
Color	Description
Solid Green	HA port paired with peer controller
Slow Green Blink	Pairing/HA Standby HOT
Slow Amber Blink	Bootup (Primary/Secondary) and HA Standby COLD
Fast Amber Blink	HA maintenance
Solid Amber	Peer not found
Off	Standby/HA disabled