We're about to (it's on order), the main reason being due to our WCS running on an antiquated WLSE appliance and therefore being ridiculously slow when searching client history etc. We do a lot of this, and can take 10 mins when busy.
I've had a bit of a play with an NCS demo we installed and it is far slicker, and is also effectively free to upgrade as existing WCS licences can be migrated for free. So my take on it is that for little money (effectively the cost of the 25 licences you get bundled with the upgrade) I get pretty a GUI with much better search feature. We had a little look at the wired features of NCS and to be honest were disappointed, I was hoping it would be able to configure switches in a similar way it does WLC's. It's unlikely that we will be importing any switches into it. The big concern is that the licence price is approaching double that of WCS licences should you need to buy more as your network expands. I'd definitely recommend downloading the VM image from Cisco, installing it then apply for the 100 demo licence pack and having a play. Cheers, Jezz. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: 05 October 2011 18:14 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless- WCS versus NCS Have any WCS shops yet migrated to NCS? Any thoughts? Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** 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/.
