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.**** > > ** ** > > Josh Robertson**** > > Network Systems Senior Engineer**** > > Old Dominion University**** > > Office of Computing & Communications Services**** > > (757)683-5046**** > > [email protected]**** > > http://occs.odu.edu/**** > > [image: Description: wifilogoside-small]**** > > ** ** > > *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**** > > Adjunct Instructor, iSchool**** > > Syracuse University**** > > 315 443-3003**** > > **** > > **** > ------------------------------ > > > Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=611088130&m=6f0ed873d08e&t=20120202&c=s> > Not > spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=611088130&m=6f0ed873d08e&t=20120202&c=n> > Forget previous > vote<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=611088130&m=6f0ed873d08e&t=20120202&c=f> > **** > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. **** > > !DSPAM:911,4f2ae022120039689516058! **** > > ********** 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/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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