[AusNOG] Wireless Access Point recommendations

[Matt Carter]

Not to mention the ease of management.
Long gone are the days of having a controller for each site, provided the controller is Layer3 reachable, you are good to go.
Also bear in mind the controller does not have to be present for the system to work (unless you are using captive portal features) only when you want to provision/reprovision an access point.
Thus, if we are talking about a single site setup or a home/domestic/hobby (ie, non service provider) deployment where the economies of scale by having a cloud controller are not relevant you could simply fire up the controller on your laptop or whatever.
If it's there so be it, if it isn't, it makes no difference, just means you can't add new AP's or reconfig existing ones.


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Gear
Sent: Friday, 8 August 2014 11:14 AM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Wireless Access Point recommendations

On 08/08/14 11:07, Khan McDonald wrote:
UniFi is a choice if you are on a budget and do not need to span a large area. Coverage on these things is limited so best to overlap the coverage areas. Another downside is having to run the management software on a server somewhere rather than having a dedicated device like Motorola's RFS, Ruckus, Meru.

Personally, I think that's a huge advantage.  If your infrastructure is virtualised, dedicated device == SPoF, whereas management servers can be DRed with all your other VMs.

Paul
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