I'm not 100% sure, but I think the location server's upper limit is somewhere around 2000. It's actually dependant on many factors. (Number of clients being tracked, number of tags in the environment, if tags are being tracked, if clients are being tracked.). And WCS can manage multiple Location Servers.
So the location server isn't the limit, WCS has an upper limit of 1500 on 3.2 software. And it has to be in WCS for the location server to see it. That's the real limiting factor. I've heard very convincing rumors, from well informed sources that this number will be increased in 4.0, due out very soon. This will require beefier hardware (mostly RAM) I'm privately hoping that they come up with a clustering type of platform. IE. one SuperWCS that controls multiple WCS's. But that would probably require a major re-architecting of the database structure. If the 100 AP limit was given to you by a Cisco Sales rep, I would get another Sales rep that knows the product line. If you got that number off the product literature, I'd call Cisco, an not your reseller, and have them send a sales drone by to show it off to you. They have it on a few laptops that they can walk around with. Several other things to be aware of: WCS is sold two ways. WCS with location, WCS without Location. WCS is only sold with a license to control 50 AP's. You buy incremental license additions, in blocks of 50 or 100. Site licenses are available (per installation of WCS). I'm told the break point is right around 400 aps. (ie, less than 400 Aps, buy the incremental license additions to get to the number of AP's you have) > -----Original Message----- > From: John Watters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:20 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. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > John Watters UA: Office of Information Technology 205-348-3992 > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
