Re: OT- Cisco Wireless Control system(WCS)

Hello,
I have deployed wireless worldwide with Controller and lightweight
AP's, I would recommend staying with one vendor to keep it simple, and
avoid problems.
Sincerely,
John

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM, ccievoice1<ccievoice1_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> But, who is supporting CAPWAP on their wireless AP now?
>
> Just for reference, Aruba released a technical brief document here:
> https://airheads.arubanetworks.com/vBulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=25&d
> =1245859157
>
> And an extract from the document:
>
> "It is the opinion of Aruba Networks that at the time of this writing in
> March 2009, no wireless LAN vendor has implemented CAPWAP as defined in
> RFC5415. Any vendor who claims to support CAPWAP is using proprietary
> extensions to the protocol that make it non-interoperable with any other
> vendor claiming to support CAPWAP. It is also Aruba s opinion that any
> vendor who did support RFC5415 and only RFC5415 as its control and
> management protocol would not be competitive in the market due to lack of
> functionality"
>
> Perhaps we need to see CAPWAP to evolve significantly before seeing
> interoperability of wireless controller and AP between vendors.
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Tony Schaffran (GS) <
> groupstudy_at_cconlinelabs.com> wrote:
>
>> The new WLC version 5.2 and newer support the industry standard CAPWAP.
>>
>> If this is not to support other vendor AP's, then why change to an industry
>> standard?
>>
>> I have not seen any documentation that specifically states third party AP's
>> are supported, but based on the change to CAPWAP, I would think it is
>> coming.
>>
>>
>> Tony Schaffran
>> Sr. Network Consultant
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> jockey wearer
>> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:01 PM
>> To: GS CCIE-Lab
>> Subject: OT- Cisco Wireless Control system(WCS)
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> did Cisco Wireless control system supports third party access point ?
>> Can anybody suggest me which Wireless management system used to manage
>> third
>> party access point ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Prashant
>>
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