Cisco ISE can be deployed as an hardware or virtual appliance.
Several Licensing Flavours:
- Base – Guest Services, Cisco TrustSec, AAA, Radius/802.1x
- Device Admin – TACACS+
- Plus – Device Profiling with Feed Service, BYOD with CA, Cisco pxGrid Context Sharing, Adaptive Network Control
- ISE Apex + AnyConnect Apex – Endpoint Compliance and Remediation, MDM/EMM Capability, Unified Posture Agent.
Physical Server based on UCS:
- Secure Network Server 3615 – Endpoints (standalone) 10000, Endpoints (per policy Services Node) 10000
- Secure Network Server 3655 – Endpoints (standalone) 25000, Endpoints (per policy Services Node) 50000
- Secure Network Server 3695 – Endpoints (standalone) 50000, Endpoints (per policy Services Node) 100000