Dell Networking W ClearPass100 Visitor Management Solution
Wireless access visitor management solution

Overview:

Easily manage guest and employee wireless access with the intuitive PowerConnect™ W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect 100 visitor management solution.

• Manage up to 5,000 connections
• Authenticate, track and analyze guest account activities
• Customize with skin technology. Create rich log in pages to promote your unique corporate branding and capture user information that is relevant to business

The Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect is a scalable, easy-to-use visitor management and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solution that delivers secure wireless network access to guests, employees and their mobile devices.

The intuitive user interface of Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect greatly simplifies visitor management by streamlining workflow processes, allowing receptionists, employees and other non-IT staff to create temporary accounts for Wi-Fi access. Guests and employees with mobile devices can also self-register for network access. Once registered, Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect delivers account login credentials to users via SMS text message or email. Accounts can be set to expire automatically after a specific number of hours or days.

Scalable to satisfy the needs of large enterprises and multi-site networks, Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect manages secure, role-based access for thousands of users. Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect also integrates seamlessly with existing multi-vendor networks and security devices to streamline deployments and meet compliance mandates.

With Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect, the corporate IT staff has one less thing to worry about and can significantly reduce operating costs and complexity.

Key features

• Enterprise-grade security with high availability
  - Unique username and password per user
  - Integrated RADIUS database for guest and device accounts
  - Role-based access controls
  - Assign different access-level privileges based on user type
  - Print template and SMS integration delivers wireless security keys out-of-band to ensure scalable and encrypted guest access
• Customization
  - Branding unique skin technology delivers a fully customized, corporate – branded user experience
  - Advertising services – Advanced content delivery platform for next-generation hotspots. Easily monetizes Wi-Fi access in public access environments using business intelligence data collection and demographic-targeted advertising delivery
  - Visitor intelligence – Self-registration capability collects data about guest preferences and experiences. Intelligent labeling enables matched content delivery
  - Seamless integration with third-party multivendor hardware and software
• Intuitive, easy to use interface
  - Enables reception staff and non-technical personnel to manage guest accounts and configure self-provisioning captive portals
  - Visitor management – Create and modify temporary user accounts; delete or set accounts to automatically expire
  - Self-registration – Guests and employees can register for access through a customizable web interface
• Scalability
  - Scales to thousands of users with minimal IT involvement
• Compliance and Auditing
  - Track and report guest account activity as well as employees that are sponsoring each guest
• Back-up and recovery
  - Backup all or specific configuration components and reporting data in real-time or via scheduled operations, including FTP and FTP over SSL or SMB file shares

Bring your Own Device (BYOD)

Support ClearPass GuestConnect automates provisioning for BYOD and IT-managed devices. The integrated device fingerprinting technology identifies broad variety of device types.

With ClearPass GuestConnect BYOD, guests and employees simply self-register for secure network access and onboard their devices.

The result is streamlined and an easy-to-manage process for delivering and revoking unique device credentials.

Key features

• Automatic configuration of network settings.
• Provisioning and revocation of unique device credentials for BYOD and employer provided devices.
• Supports iOS operating system now. Support for Windows, Mac OS X and Android devices coming soon.

Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect models

Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect appliance is available as hardware appliances that are optimized to run Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect software, eliminating any potential hardware incompatibility or performance issues. Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect is also available as a Virtual Appliance that is supported on the following platforms:

• VMware ESXi Server 4.0+, 5.0+
• VMware ESX Server 4i, version 4.1.0+
• VMware Workstation (all versions)
• VMware Player 3.0+
• VMware Server 2.0+

Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect hardware appliances

Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect hardware is available in two model as follows:

• Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect 100 – For small companies, branch offices, midsize/large enterprises and public access deployments scalable to 5,000 user connections
• Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass GuestConnect 2500 – For very large deployments such as hotel chains, carriers or corporate headquarters, scalable to 25,000 user connections

Warranty

• 1 year parts/labor