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ENCEnterprise Network Center

ENCEnterprise Network Center

■ Scalability management up to 2,000 devices

■ Network and device auto-discovery

■ Firmware upgrade/backup and device configurations

■ Performance alerts and monitoring

■ ZyXEL switch specialized in RMON management and visual VLAN management

■ ZyXEL in-wall Access Point (AP) specialized in detection and provisioning applications (ENC V1.2 and above)

■ Multiple controller management for massive WLAN network deployment (ENC V1.3 and above)

■ Switch traffic quality management for IP surveillance applications (ENC V1.3 and above)

The ZyXEL Enterprise Network Center (ENC) is a network management system for

centralized management of ZyXEL networking equipment for businesses; it’s a

comprehensive network management tool that can be quickly installed and easily accessed

across the IP networks. The ZyXEL ENC is designed for small and medium-sized businesses

with a single console to enjoy extensive, scalable and seamless management across the

entire corporate network. Featuring intelligent discovery, ingenious monitoring and smart

management, the ZyXEL ENC assists IT staff to minimize overheads and errors while

improving operational efficiency.

Benefits

Access anytime, anywhere

The ZyXEL ENC provides Web-based access for IT administrators to facilitate network monitoring

and management without requiring dedicated client installation. The IT staff can utilize the ENC to

check device health or network inventory with a browser, wherever an IP network is available,

without the limitation of time and physical location.

Smart management fulfilling IT needs

Discovery and mapping

The ZyXEL ENC uses various protocols and centralized credentials to automatically discover

deployed ZyXEL equipment, and it performs periodic data polling for the environment to ensure

accurate network integrity. IT administrators can maintain a complete inventory of

ZyXEL-managed infrastructure and easily monitor the network environment in their customized

topology viewer.

Configuration and scheduling

The configuration management capabilities of ZyXEL ENC allow administrators to perform

automatic maintenance, backup and restoration of network device configurations to eliminate

inefficiency and error associated with manual operations. The ENC also centralizes firmware

management, with which firmware versions can be deployed to individual devices or groups of

devices based on the schedule.

Intuitive, Real-time Monitoring and Management of Distributed Devices

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Customized dashboard displays different account’s privileges.

Object Tree View (OTV) maps the managed devices and networks on the imported scheme and details.

Monitoring and reporting

The ZyXEL ENC supports in-depth correlation, real-time alarming and troubleshooting. It

presents not only system information such as CPU usage and bandwidth utilization to prevent

possible network problems, but also offers customizable notification and alarm setting via

multiple methods to escalate correcting actions to the appropriate administrators. A threshold

can be set to generate alarms on any monitor to quickly alert the operators of any issue.

Easy to read, identify and compare

The ENC dashboard presents the real-time state of critical events, health-affecting conditions and

performance metrics of ZyXEL-managed devices to provide the essential information for any

possible attention. It is also customizable, so the IT members can have individual views based on

their account privileges. The ZyXEL ENC provides the graphical Object Tree View (OTV) that maps

the managed devices and networks on the imported scheme and details such as device

up/down status and alarm status. With these indicators and metrics in hand, the IT staff can

consistently ensure the network to meet expectations or take further correction if needed.

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Significant improvement of traffic and power managements

As social security concerns grow with technology advancement, IP surveillance becomes one of the most important daily necessities to many users. To

address this, ENC systems aggregate and access switches to cooperate with IP surveillance systems for a seamless mechanism of full protection. There are

three great ENC features that would be highly valuable in IP surveillance applications.

IP surveillance of highest priority

Insufficient network capacity is one of the most critical risks for IP surveillance applications due to the varying and excessive loads, however security crisis

could occur in any moment. To relieve this situation, 2R3C policies can be set on the ENC to classify the input packets and each different ingress port traffic

status for different priorities, and the ENC can reserve sufficient bandwidth for IP surveillance usage while keeping safety as the highest priority.

Best seamless IP surveillance quality

Although we can deploy a number of IP cameras to ensure safety for users, but how can we manage and maintain these cameras effectively? The ENC is a

great IP surveillance solution to ensure the monitoring quality: when an ENC poll the traffics of each port, it also automatically detects the abnormal

conditions and triggers alarms immediately. This not only eases IP surveillance deployments, but also reduces IT overheads for maintenance and

management.

Green awareness and more benefits

In response to the demand for energy saving and green awareness, ENC brings more intelligent energy management to IP surveillance. For instance, date and

time can be set to enable and disable switch ports for easy management of operating periods; in addition, it also shows ports utilization condition to inform

users of available ports. It traces the power loss on RJ45 ports for aging IP cameras while the energy management report clearly presents power consumption

and utilization. These designs not only save more power, but also extend the lifetime of IP cameras and reduce a considerable amount of overheads.

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Energy ManagementAutotimer controls power on and offMonitors and reports power loss and consumption status

Distributed WLAN Application

Comprehensive multi-controller dominator

Premium management and broader scalability for large-scale deployments

Although the ZyXEL NXC5200 can easily manage up to 240 APs, however it may not be enough for even larger network deployments. With the capability of

managing up to 2000 APs via NXC5200, the ENC is a high-level network center that perfectly connects to groups of NXC5200 as a solid, comprehensive

system for larger and multi-site deployments. Better yet, the ENC can provide reports of penetration and utilization analysis to the IT staff for higher

management efficiency and productivity.

Harmonious collaboration and monitoring for easier management

In larger network deployments that would reach over 2000 APs, efficiency of management becomes an unavoidable challenge. For example, configuration

inconsistency among multiple controllers may cause severe mistakes and damages. Fortunately, the ENCs placed over the NXC5200s can easily take care of

the synchronization tasks to prevent configuration inconsistency among the ENCs and NXC5200s to reduce potential risks effectively.

Moreover, the ENC can monitor all AP status via NXC5200. The IT staff can react immediately when they receive alarms from the ENC analysis. With the

comprehensive functions of ENC, the IT staff can not only boost employee productivity and management efficiency, but also reduce the overheads

significantly.

Guaranteed TrafficsControls traffic priorities and reserves more bandwidth for IP surveillance

Health MonitoringMonitors and polls traffics from switch port to IP cameras automatically

Integrated, easy management

Single management point of wireless services via multiple controllers (great collaboration and monitoring)

Better scalability

An ENC can manage up to 2000 APs (via NXC5200)

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With the release of ENC 1.2, the ZyXEL NWA1300-NJ In-wall PoE AP is supported on the platform to run a variety of sophisticated applications. Specially

designed for hospitality Internet services with massive deployments, the Hospitality Suit of ENC management platform allows administrators to effortlessly

manage the network in a smarter way.

Intelligent deployment assistant saves construction cost

The actual equipment installation work of hotels during the construction phase is not usually aligned with the perspective of networking administrators.

Featuring innovative and unique designs, the ENC server can scan for the NWA1300-NJ in the field and then apply network configurations spontaneously and

automatically. With the profile-based configuration design, the administrators can manage a single or a group of the NWA1300-NJ according to the location

topology, guest room priority or geographical difference.

Location view for user-friendly, convenient monitoring

As traditional network management tools are based on IP logical view, they are usually not intuitive enough for hotel IT administrators due to lacking of the

location information. The ZyXEL ENC Hospitality Suit supports not only general management through the IP logical view, but also visual and customizable

location views by floor or building. With this special design, ENC relieves the redundant work of checking device status and eliminates the possible errors in

scattered, complicated operations.

Quick, powerful troubleshooting

It is sometimes difficult to identify radio coverage problems, especially those happened in public areas. With the capability to pull the imperative parameters

and indicators from the managed NWA1300-NJ, the ZyXEL ENC allows hotel IT administrators to quickly pinpoint the location and type of errors. The found

problems are described with clear, comprehensive illustrations to help administrators performing troubleshooting and thus provide high-quality wireless

service to the hotel guests.

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Technical Specifications

Operating System Requirement

• CPU: Intel P4 2.8 GHz

Minimum System Hardware—Server • Memory: 2 GB

• Hard disk: 10 GB

Minimum System Hardware—Client • CPU: Intel P4 1.4 GHz

• Memory: 1 GB

• Windows XP Professional

• Windows Vista (32-bit)

Server OS Support • Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit)

• Windows Server 2008 (Only tested on R2 Enterprise 64-bit and R2 Standard 64-bit)

• Support English (US) OS only

• Microsoft IE 7.0 or 8.0 (IE9.0 not support yet)

Client Browser Support • Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later (Recommended)

• Adobe Flash plug-in 10.0 or above is required

Other Requirement • Mail server (optional)

Discovery and Mapping

Automated Device Discovery • Automated device discovery

• SNMP

Discovery Protocol Support • ICMP ping

• Port scan

Device Resynchronization • System resynchronization with device inventory

Device Resynchronization Scheduling • Ability to schedule device resynchronization to be performed at a specified future time/dates(s)

• Default resynchronization interval of 3 minutes

• Dashboard view

Topology Mapping • Object Tree View (OTV)

• Device filtering support through displaying specific devices by model names or keywords

SNMP MIB Browser • Includes a SNMP MIB browser for users to have quick views of all MIB attributes in the device

Configuration and Scheduling

• Device configuration file backup for applicable devices

Configuration File Backup • Single node backup or group backup support

• Immediate action or task scheduling support

• Device configuration file restoration for applicable devices

Configuration File Restoration • Single node backup or group backup support


Device Firmware Update • Automated update of selected firmware versions


Scripting • Command line interface (CLI)-based


Configuration File Selection • Ability to apply specific firmware versions on selected devices

Device Configuration • Direct access/cut-through (HTTP/Telnet/SSH)

Monitoring and Reporting

Event Monitoring • SNMP trap reception with defined trap attribution, severity and descriptions

Event Log • Event logs and notifications

Alarm Escalation • Alarm generation based on pre-defined event definitions

Alarm Propagation • Show alarm viewer information on the OTV tree

Alarm/Event Actions • Event/alarm-initiated, pre-defined or user-defined actions: notification, configuration operations, etc.

Device Performance Presentation • Real-time or historical key performance index of user-selected devices acquired and displayed

• Device and interface monitoring, historical data persistence, thresholding and graphing packaged

Active Performance Monitoring reports

• Pre-defined reports for inventory, availability and port status, etc.

Packaged Reports • Pre-defined reports for inventory, availability and port status, etc.

Report Export • CVS, PDF and HTML formats are supported for report exports.

Report Emailing • Packaged reports can be sent to identify administrator via e-mails or at a regular schedule.

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Featured Switch Model Applications

Visual VLAN Management • Port-based graphical overview of VLAN settings

• ENC supports data polling of the following essential management parameters of switch ports:

■ Basic Setting

■ Bandwidth Control

■ Broadcast Storm Control

Port Utilization ■ Security

■ Authentication

• Applications on ENC:

■ Set alarm threshold

■ Real-time graphical monitoring

■ Alarm notification via mail or HTTP-POST

• Centralized and visualize RMON setting (RMON activation)

• Graph view to see Statistics and History variablesRemote Networking

■ Statistics: maintain utilization and error statistics monitored by the RMON agentMonitoring (RMON) View

■ History: Record periodic statistical samples from information available in the statistics group

■ ENC provides graph view to see the trend of statistics and history.

Hospitality Management • Provision

• Monitoring

• Bandwidth Guarantee (2R3C+Bound Rate commit)

IP surveillance Management • Traffic Monitoring

• Energy Management

Distributed WLAN Management • Premium management and broader scalability

• Harmonious collaboration with monitoring and reporting

Supported Devices

• XGS-4728F, XGS-4528F, XGS-4526

• MGS-3712, MGS-3712F, MES-3728, MES-3528Switches

• GS-4024, GS-4012F, GS2200-24, GS2200-24P, GS2200-48

• ES-4124, ES-3148, ES-3124, ES-3124PWR, ES-2024A, ES-2024PWR, ES-2108, ES-2108-G, ES-2108PWR

• NWA-1100

WLAN APs • NWA-3160, NWA-3163, NWA-3166, NWA-3500, NWA3550, NWA3160-N, NWA3560-N

• NWA1300-NJ

WLAN Controller • NXC5200

Ordering Information

• Device licenses can be mixed and matched.

Licensing Information • The ENC platform is downloadable at http://www.zyxel.com/products_services/enc.shtml?t=p

This is the fully functional version, with a 50-node test capability and 30-day expiration limit.

• If a formal license is activated, the trial device license counter will be reset.

Scalability • License packs are available from 10 nodes to up to 1000 nodes.

• Maximum supported nodes: 2000 devices

Licenses

License Description

ENC-10 10-device Management





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