+ a Web-based portal, called My Devices," which lets end users register their personally owned devices with ISE, which in turn can enforce for these devices whatever bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies have been set by the IT group

+ Secure Group Access, which lets a network administrator assign users to groups that have a set of pre-defined policies associated with them. New users automatically have these policies applied to them and their devices

For security and management across wired and wireless networks, Cisco offers , also announced last year. It integrates several previously separate tools into one application with a single user interface, spanning both wired and wireless LANs.

That software, too, is being updated, adding what Cisco calls application visibility and control. Essentially, Prime can collect data from various sources and tools to create a visual picture of how specific applications are behaving, and of the end user's "network experience" in terms of delays or other quality standards.

Cisco also announced for small- and midsized WLANs, that several of these infrastructure products are now available as software that can be hosted on virtual servers: Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Identity Services Engine, along with Cisco Mobility Services Engine, and a WLAN controller that supports up to 200 access points.