Cisco Mobility Services Engine: An Open, Appliance-Based Platform for Delivering Mobility Services

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1 Data Sheet Cisco Mobility Services Engine: An Open, Appliance-Based Platform for Delivering Mobility Services Product Overview Ten billion mobile devices will populate our planet by , and this proliferation in mobility is promoting the need for wireless connectivity. Businesses are compelled to open their networks and provide customers with wireless network connectivity, presenting tremendous potential as well as unique challenges. The Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE) is the single network device that enables businesses to realize unprecedented benefits from the BYOD revolution as well as mitigate the risks involved. The Cisco MSE is a platform that enables the wireless network to deliver mobility services in a centralized and scalable way. The MSE delivers the following mobility services: Location services: Increases visibility into the network by capturing and consolidating crucial information about RF spectrum, sources of RF interference, and devices and users on the network. Cisco MSE extends and enhances the capabilities of Cisco CleanAir technology. Location services also enable a rich set of real-time location services (RTLS). Advanced location services: Enables enterprises and service providers to deliver customized locationbased mobile services to end users to use location analytics to gain insights into end-user behavior while in their venue. Wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS): Protects the network from wireless threats, rogue wireless devices, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to improve security and meet compliance objectives. The MSE is available as a physical (Figure 1) or a virtual appliance. Figure 1. Cisco MSE Physical Appliance To deliver true business mobility, IT must take a practical approach focused on unifying networks, managing the wave of mobile devices, and enabling mobile application development. The Cisco MSE is at the heart of this mobility architecture evolution. It provides an open API that allows a broad ecosystem of partners to access network intelligence in developing industry-relevant mobility solutions. The MSE is part of Cisco Unified Access, delivering a comprehensive approach to business mobility: an approach that extends applications to the right device at the right time, no matter which network is being used. 1 Cisco 2012 Visual Networking Index Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 1 of 1

2 Product Architecture The Cisco MSE provides the following architectural elements: A common API framework A common management plane for services design, deployment, and operation (monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting) Management of services provided by the Cisco PI Scalable infrastructure to support the instantiation of additional services Architecture allows services to span across multiple MSEs to facilitate flexibility in deployment Loose coupling among services Facilitates easy integration into framework (plug and play) Message-based collaboration service-oriented architecture (SOA) model, in which individual services can be managed independently without affecting others Integrated with the Cisco Unified Access Figure 2 shows the Cisco MSE architecture. Figure 2. MSE Architecture Product Specifications Table 1 lists product specifications for the Cisco MSE. Table 2 lists specifications for the Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance. Table 3 lists scaling details for Location Services, Advanced Location Services and awips on Cisco 3355 MSE or Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance. Table 1. Cisco MSE Product Specifications (Physical Appliance) Feature Cisco MSE 3355 Supported services Location services: 500 APs Advanced location services: 500 APS Adaptive WIPS: 5000 monitor mode or enhanced local mode (ELM) access points 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 2 of 6

3 Feature Cisco MSE 3355 Evaluation support Processor Memory Hard disk Removable media Ports Connectivity Management Management interface Network devices MSE: physical or virtual appliance ships with the following eval licenses Location services: 10 APs Advanced location services: 10 APs Adaptive wireless intrusion prevention: 20 monitor mode or enhanced local mode access points 2 quad-core Intel Nehalem processor 2.0 GHz, 4-MB cache 16-GB DDR3 (2 x 8 GB) Four hot-swappable 146-GB SAS drives with up to 6-Gbps transfer rate DVD-RO drive Four USB ports: two in front, two in back Two VGA ports: one in front and one in back One RJ-45 management port for out-of-band management RJ-45: Two rear RJ-45 connectors for connection to two Gigabit network adapters Network: Two embedded multifunction Gigabit network adapters with TCP/IP offload engine SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 PI All WLCs All 11n APs System specifications Number of MSEs per PI: 20 Programming interfaces Form factor Physical dimensions Power Cooling fans Environmental SOAP/XML APIs & REST 1RU Height: 1.69" (43mm) Width: 17.3" (440mm) Depth: 28.0" (711.4mm) Weight: 28 (minimum) lb (maximum) ( kg) AC power supply wattage: 625W AC power supply voltage: V at Hz; V at Hz 92% efficient Autoswitching, hot-swappable Redundant power supplies Total of six fans, 3+3 redundant configuration Operating temperature: 50 to 95 F (10 to 35 C) up to 3000 ft/914.4m 50 to 90 F (10 to 32 C) 3000 ft to 7000 ft/914.4m t o 2133m Nonoperating temperature: -40 to 140 F (-40 to 60 C) Maximum rate of change is 20 C/hr (36 F/hr) v air temperature - server on: 10 C to 35 C (50 F to 95 F) Altitude: 0 to m (3000 ft), decrease system temperature by 1.0 C for every 1000-foot increase in altitu de v air temperature - server off: 5 C to 45 C (41 F to 113 F) Maximum altitude: 3048m (10,000 ft) Shipment: -40 C to 60 C (-40 F to 140 F) Maximum altitude: 3048m (10,000 ft) v humidity - server on: 20% to 80% Maximum dew point: 21 C Maximum rate of change: 5 C/hr v humidity - server off: 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 3 of 6

4 Feature Cisco MSE % to 80% Maximum dew point: 27 C Approvals and compliance Safety UL CAN/CSA -C22.2 No EN60950 IEC 60950: EMC FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A ICES-003 Class A EN Class A CISPR22 Class A AS/NZS 3548 Class A VCCI Class A EN EN Energy Star compliant Table 2. Feature Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance Product Specifications Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance VMware ESXi version (virtual appliance on a customer-supplied server) Minimum server requirements VMware ESX and ESXi version 4.1 and later Cisco MSE High-End Virtual Appliance 1000 AP location services licenses 10,000 awips license Minimum RAM: 20GB Minimum hard disk space allocation: 500GB Disk system throughput: Minimum of 1600 IOPS with a bandwidth of 6000 Kbytes/sec Physical cores: 16 at 2.13GHz or better (2x Intel Xeon E7-L8867) Cisco MSE Standard Virtual Appliance 360 AP location services licenses 5000 awips license Minimum RAM: 11GB Minimum hard disk space allocation: 500GB Disk system throughput: Minimum of 1000 IOPS with a bandwidth of 3500 Kbytes/sec Physical cores: 8 at 2.93GHz or better (2x Intel Xeon X5570) Cisco MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance 40 AP location services licenses 2000 awips license Minimum RAM: 6GB Minimum Hard disk space allocation: 500GB Disk system throughput: Minimum of 900 IOPS with a bandwidth of 3000 Kbytes/sec Physical cores: 2 at 2.93GHz or better (2x Intel Xeon X5570) Virtual Appliance Reference Hardware Configurations Cisco UCS C460 M2 rack mount server (high-end virtual appliance) Two Intel Xeon(R) CPU 2.13GHz Disk system throughput: Minimum of 1600 IOPS with a bandwidth of 6000 Kbytes/sec Cisco UCS C250 M2 rack mount server (standard virtual appliance) Two Intel Xeon(R) CPU 2.93GHz 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 4 of 6

5 Disk system throughput: Minimum of 1100 IOPS with a bandwidth of 4000 Kbytes/sec Cisco UCS C250 M2 rack mount server (low-end virtual appliance) One Intel Xeon(R) CPU 2.93GHz Disk system throughput: Minimum of 900 IOPS with a bandwidth of 3000 Kbytes/sec Table 3. Scaling Details for Cisco MSE 3355 and Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance Small deployments can run multiple services on the same appliance, i.e. for Cisco MSE 3355 less than 200 AP with Location Services; for Cisco MSE High-End Virtual Appliance less than 500 AP with Location Services. For larger deployments, it is recommended using separate MSE appliances for each service. Appliance Location Services Advanced Location Services awips Cisco MSE AP 500 AP 0 Cisco MSE ,000 AP Cisco MSE AP 200 AP 3,000 AP Cisco MSE High-End Virtual Appliance 1,000 AP 1,000 AP 0 Cisco MSE High-End Virtual Appliance ,000 AP Cisco MSE High-End Virtual Appliance 500 AP 500 AP 5,000 AP Cisco MSE Standard Virtual Appliance 360 AP 360 AP 0 Cisco MSE Standard Virtual Appliance 0 0 5,000 AP Cisco MSE Standard Virtual Appliance 180 AP 180 AP 2,500 AP Cisco MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance 40 AP 40 AP 0 Cisco MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance 0 0 2,000 AP Cisco MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance 20 AP 20 AP 1,000 AP Summary The Cisco MSE is a platform that enables the wireless network to deliver mobility services in a centralized and scalable way. The MSE delivers location services, advanced location services, and adaptive WIPS. The open API of the MSEs enables Cisco partners to use the capabilities of the network to deliver business-relevant solutions. Ordering Information Table 3 lists ordering information for the Cisco MSE. For detailed information, visit the ordering guide. To place an order, visit Table 4. Ordering Information Part Number Product Name AIR-MSE-3355-K9 Cisco MSE 3355 L-MSE-7.0-K9 Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance Service and Support Smartnet support is available for the Cisco MSE. For Smartnet ordering details, please see the Cisco MSE Licensing and Ordering Guide Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 5 of 6

6 Cisco Wireless LAN Services Transparently integrate mobile services and take full advantage of the systemwide capabilities of Cisco Unified Access with services from Cisco and our partners. For details, visit For More Information For more information about Cisco Mobility Services Engine, visit or contact your local Cisco account representative. Printed in USA C / Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 6 of 6