TP-Link Omada Hardware Controller for 100 Access Points, PoE Powered

TP-Link Omada Hardware Controller (OC200) - 5 Years Local Warranty

The OC200 is the smallest Omada hardware controller: a 100 mm palm-sized unit that draws power over 802.3af/at PoE or micro USB, managing up to 100 Omada access points, 20 switches and 10 routers with up to 1,000 clients. For most Singapore SMB sites it is the whole management layer, powered from a spare PoE port with no adapter and no rack space.

A Hundred Access Points From a PoE Port

The OC200 manages up to 100 Omada access points, 20 JetStream switches and 10 Omada routers, with up to 1,000 clients. It takes power from an 802.3af/at PoE switch port or a micro USB supply at DC 5V, minimum 1A — so in a typical deployment it hangs off the PoE switch that already feeds the access points, with one cable and no power brick. Two 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, a USB 2.0 port and a micro USB port complete the interfaces.

Layer 3 and Multi-Site Management at the Small End

Despite its size the OC200 supports L3 management and multi-site management, so it can adopt devices across routed subnets and hold several separate sites in one controller. For a small MSP or a business with three or four shops, that means one controller in the head office managing every location rather than a controller per site.

Centralised Wireless Control: Band Steering, Load Balance, QoS

The controller drives the wireless features that individual access points cannot coordinate alone: L3 management, multi-SSID, load balance, band steering, airtime fairness, beamforming, rate limiting, wireless scheduling and QoS. Band steering and load balance in particular only make sense controller-side, because they require a view of every access point and client at once rather than a single device's local state.

Captive Portal, Rogue AP Detection and Access Control

Wireless security managed from the OC200 covers captive portal authentication, access control, wireless MAC address filtering, client isolation, SSID-to-VLAN mapping and rogue AP detection. SSID-to-VLAN mapping is the mechanism behind a properly separated guest network, and rogue AP detection flags unauthorised transmitters — both configured once and applied across every adopted access point.

Batch Firmware Upgrades and Scheduled Reboots

AP management includes automatic discovery, unified configuration, reboot scheduling, batch firmware upgrade and LED on/off control. LED control sounds trivial until the access points are in a hotel corridor or a clinic ceiling; batch firmware upgrade is what turns a security patch across twenty access points from an evening's work into one action.

Palm-Sized and Silent

At 100 × 98 × 25 mm the OC200 is smaller than most desk phones and entirely fanless, so it can sit in a cupboard or be cable-tied beside a switch. It operates from 0 to 40 °C at 10–90% humidity and ships with a Quick Installation Guide and an Ethernet cable — no power supply, since PoE is the expected source.

Ideal For

Singapore businesses, schools, hotels and managed-service providers building on Omada, and IT teams that want a controller they can adopt, monitor and update centrally rather than box by box. Supplied by SourceIT with local Singapore warranty, GST invoice and project pricing on request.