Howay9800

Howay9800

Overview

Howay9800 is a cloud-based wireless management platform, designed as a wireless controller for large-scale national Wi-Fi network deployments. It supports cloud-based distributed deployment, user classification and authorization, device monitoring and troubleshooting, alarm notifications, remote configuration and management, auditing, scheduled upgrades, and more. With high performance, user-friendly operation, rich functionality, and easy scalability, it serves as a powerful tool for WiFi service providers in network management and monitoring.

                                                                                                                                           Cloud AC

                                                                                Features

Cloud-Based Centralized Management Architecture

In the traditional hardware-based AC+AP architecture, the AC functions as the centralized control device deployed alongside APs in the local machine room of the WiFi network. This setup typically caters to the management of WiFi networks in institutions like schools, hospitals, or hotels. However, configuration of wireless parameters and device management often requires operation through the local interface of the AC. When network issues arise, on-site personnel are usually needed for resolution, incurring substantial operational costs. With the gradual increase in the number of wireless networks deployed by WiFi service providers, a product capable of centralized management and monitoring of WiFi networks becomes essential. Cloud-based AC emerges as a natural choice and solution within this scenario.

The cloud-based wireless management platform undertakes a crucial mission of reducing WiFi network operational costs, first addressing the following issues:

  1. Can remote centralized configuration and management of all wireless devices across the network be achieved?
  2. Can monitoring and timely alerting of all WiFi devices across the network be ensured?

The cloud-based wireless management platform accomplishes centralized management and monitoring of all network devices through the following architectural model:

The cloud-based wireless management platform consists of two main components:

  1. Management Center (MCP): Provides centralized data storage, unified configuration interface, centralized presentation of alerts, and more.
  2. Business Unit (BU): Handles core functions of the AC, such as roaming, HAP (Home Access Point), Portal authentication, and other features.

Flexible and Scalable Deployment Approach

According to different scenarios, the platform supports both centralized deployment and remote distributed deployment

  1. Centralized Deployment in the Central Data Center
  2. Remote Deployment of MCP and BU
The construction of a WiFi network is a progressive process. During the initial phase, when the network scale is relatively small and to save deployment costs, the platform supports a standalone deployment. Only one server is required to encompass all the functionalities of the cloud-based wireless management platform. As the network gradually expands, scalability is achieved through the separation of BU and MCP, parallel expansion of BU, and incremental capacity expansion through BU grouping and BU extension.

Highly Stable Distributed Deployment of MCP

As the number of APs gradually increases, the business BU also needs incremental expansion. However, at this point, MCP becomes the performance bottleneck for the entire cloud wireless management platform. The capability and stability of MCP directly determine the integrated platform’s capacity. In terms of MCP clusterization capability, the 9800 product has also been developed. The current architecture has enabled the construction of a highly stable management platform based on MCP.

Through the distributed cluster deployment of the MCP platform, the cloud wireless management platform has the capability to accommodate the connection of over 50,000 APs.