Converged Access Small Branch (Single switch) Best Practices / Golden Configuration Cheatsheet
Table of Content
Overview
Topology
Base Layer 2/3 Configuration
Deploying Converged Access
Mobility
Security
WLAN
Guest Solution
Advanced IOS Wireless Services
Wireless Best Practices
Summary
Overview
The small-size remote branch office or retail store may consist of a single or a stack of Ethernet switches to provide network connectivity to the wired and wireless users. Such small networks can converge the Ethernet switching with next-generation wireless capability on the same Catalyst switch.
For such network designs, the switch can integrate WLC Mobility Controller (MC) and Mobility Agent (MA) functions without requiring any additional Converged Access elements, such as Switch-Peer-Group (SPG) in the network. These networks may need Guest wireless services, as well as common security and network access policy enforcement across all branch offices.
Below is a typical topology of a single switch branch network and sample configuration which has been tried and tested at various customer deployment.
Topology
Below figure shows a reference topology for a typical branch network
Entire Configuration