I am preparing to rollout a large deployment of Cisco Airespace APs to
cover our entire 1,000 acre campus with 120+ buildings, inside and out.
My estimate of the number of APs needed approaches 3,000. My Cisco folks
recommend using their WCS product along with their Location Appliances.
Since each pair of these will only handle up to 100 APs each, that is
lot of money to be spent on WCS+Location Appliance pairs. My Airwave
tech person visited yesterday and said that their AMP product (which I
already have managing my fat APs) can easily take the place of the Cisco
WCS+Location Appliance pairs. He went on to say that Cisco even
recommends the Airwave management solution for "large deployments".
My questions to the list are:
1) Is the Airwave person correct that the AMP product can do all (or
almost all) of what the Cisco WCS+Location Appliance pairs do when
managing an Airespace environment?
2) Is anyone running an Airspace deployment anywhere close to this size
(in a single location) and satisfactorily using the Airwave AMP product
instead of the Cisco WCS+Location Appliance pairs to manage it?
Thanks.
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John Watters UA: Office of Information Technology 205-348-3992
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