Originally it did support 500 APs. Through a code change this number
was reduced to 250 because of some errors when approaching 500, but
the beta hardware had a 6 core cpu, not the 10 core that's in the
final version.
James Nesbitt
Wireless Engineer
Duke University
919-668-6485
On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Needham R Parks wrote:
For some reason I was under the impression that the 5508 can
support up to 500 aps based on the licensing you obtain.
Needham Parks
Network Engineer
Duke University Health System
Lee H Badman <[email protected]>
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ...Any opinions on the Cisco 5508 WLC?
I agree that from the code perspective, Airespace really hasn't been
integrated well yet after the Cisco purchase- would be nice to see
some gains here. On the 5508, would have been nice in some respects
if it was a 300-AP unit, to be a one-for-one WiSM replacement (yeah,
you can argue that the WiSM is actually two 150-AP controllers).
Lee H. Badman
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Information Technology and Services
Syracuse University
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] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ...Any opinions on the Cisco 5508 WLC?
Is the 5508 still under the control of the same relatively non-
transparent
operating system? Can we see/manipulate flash or firmware/config
files, and
monitor processes? Is there any hope for this being more IOS like
now that its
on next-generation hardware?
Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare
Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | [email protected]
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Loc
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ...Any opinions on the Cisco 5508 WLC?
James & Barron,
For purpose of our community, would you care to share your
experiences ( cc
group ) since our upgrade is coming and it is always nice to look
beside the
65xx monsters (!).
Best Regards,
Loc Pham, # 17030 , office 415-353-4492
IT Enterprise Security & Services, UCSF Medical Center
Where self-healing network is building on .
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Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 12:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ...Any opinions on the Cisco 5508 WLC?
Barron,
We were part of the beta program for this controller and it is
definitely the
way to go for scalability. It's basically a WiSM without the
chassis, huge
savings on power requirements and consumption. With a 10 core cpu,
this box has
plenty of processing power. It's cool to do a code upgrade and see
100 APs
downloading code at the same time. You may contact me offline for
more details.
James Nesbitt
Wireless Engineer
Duke University
919-668-6485
On Jun 4, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Barron Hulver wrote:
> We have six Cisco 4404-100 wireless LAN controllers using 5.2.178.0
> software and are in the process of purchasing another WLC. Cisco
has
> just released the 5508 controller so I'm wondering if anyone has
used
> this yet and, if so, what comments you have.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10315/index.html
>
> Barron
>
> Barron Hulver
> Director of Networking, Operations, and Systems Center for
Information
> Technology Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074
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