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From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 5/17/2006 8:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Spam:0008 SpamScore] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Airespace APs with AIrwave AMP Management
John:
Are you going to run the WiSMs on the Cat65K?
Those support 300 APs, and so
two chassis could handle 10
blades.
According to Cisco's web page, every WCS can handle at 1500 APs,
so I'm not
sure where you get the 100 number.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/ps6305/products_qanda_item0900a
ecd802570dc.shtml
I
wasn't able to find a number for WCS and location. Perhaps when
they're
paired a new upper limit comes into play?
With a deployment as
large as your own, I would recommend that you ask Cisco
for a few other .edu
references (UBC comes to mind), and find out how
they're doing it. And
I would think that AirWave would let you trial their
product after you have a
few hundred APs deployed.
Regards,
Frank
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From: John Watters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:20 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Airespace
APs with AIrwave AMP Management
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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