I think if you see 1000 AP's on a controller, they would most likely be in
HREAP mode.  Controller failure wouldn't affect that.

Mike

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Danny Eaton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anyone else have heartburn about putting 500 (or in the future 1,000)
> APs on a single controller?  With our deployment, 150 per controller is
> roughly 2-3 of our bigger buildings, and several of the smaller – but not
> necessarily geographically together.  We can minimize an outage by putting
> different neighboring buildings on different WiSM blades.  With 500 APs on
> a single controller (or 1,000 in the future), a WiSM outage could take down
> half the campus – or the whole campus in many cases.  Seeing as our
> students (and faculty, frankly) see wireless as a desired connectivity
> method, that prospect is scary, to me.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Robertson, Joshua A.
> *Sent:* Thursday, 02 February, 2012 13:12
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on
> WiSMs****
>
> ** **
>
> We hit the same issue here, we have 7 WiSM 1s and 3 WiSM 2s.  I had just
> finally gotten away from a mixed code environment this past summer after
> putting the last 1010s out to pasture and now there’s this.****
>
> ** **
>
> On our end we’re working to fund replacing the WiSM 1s with WiSM 2s this
> summer, fingers crossed that will work out.  I am very disappointed that
> Cisco would kill upgrades to the WiSM 1 code so shortly after introducing
> the WiSM 2.****
>
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>
> Josh Robertson****
>
> Network Systems Senior Engineer****
>
> Old Dominion University****
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>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [
> mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>]
> *On Behalf Of *Lee H Badman
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:32 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs***
> *
>
> ** **
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps2706/ps6526/end_of_life_notice_c51-691055.html
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> Somehow this escaped me, and now I’m dealing with not getting wind of it
> earlier.****
>
> ** **
>
> It’s no surprise that WiSMs are getting long in the tooth, but the part of
> the announcement that (I think) sucks is that we have a quantity of 3600
> APs ready to get installed. These APs need 7.1 Code. WiSMs will not run 7.1
> code.****
>
> ** **
>
> We have (6) 5508s, and 24 controllers on 12 WiSMs. So we have the
> unfortunate choices of either running a mixed code environment (yeah, that
> sounds fun) where 3600s may hit controllers that can’t let them associate,
> shelving our 3600s until we get our 5508s in place and WiSMs retired at the
> pace we had planned on, or quickly rushing to get rid the WiSMs so we’re
> not faced with either of the first two situations.****
>
> ** **
>
> Sharing in case anyone else can benefit…****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Lee H. Badman****
>
> Wireless/Network Engineer****
>
> Information Technology and Services****
>
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> Syracuse University****
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> 315 443-3003****
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