My view regarding the 3850 is that anything that locks you into a vendor, and makes it more difficult to switch to a competitor is a bad thing for the consumer, and should be considered with your eyes wide open to the long term consequences. In my mind, one would have to make an extremely compelling business case to counter that tradeoff. Keep in mind that the Vendor's job is to make "switching costs" as high as possible for the consumer. It is bad enough that we still have to purchase AP's and controller's from the same vendor.
The 5700 looks like a great idea for those of us with large wireless networks. Pete Morrissey From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luke Jenkins Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] New Cisco Wireless Gear - 5760WLC & Cat3850 At Cisco Live London today, Cisco announced two new WLCs: 5760 WLC - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12598/index.html and the Cat3850 Switch - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12686/index.html IOS XE for both of these (not AireOS) and the ability to do termination of CAPWAP on the switch with optional mobility tunnels back to a controller. The datasheet for the Cat3850 has some info on this new option. Could be situationally useful, but I'm not quite sold on the advantages vs. the current model for higher ed where many of us are using big central pools of real IPs and no NAT for our wireless users. Thoughts? -Luke -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Luke Jenkins Network Engineer Weber State University ********** 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/.
