We're pretty big believers in N + 1 (or something that comes close while still being cost effective)so in this case, we would have needed two controllers just for the mesh nodes.
Lee -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Hector J Rios Sent: Sun 7/27/2008 5:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 1500 Mesh End-of-sale I feel your pain Lee. We have also dedicated a Controller for the mesh radios. So one of our controllers has been running 4.1.192.17M, while the rest of our controllers are on 4.2.130.0. Hector From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 1500 Mesh End-of-sale It gets worse, Hector... (at least for us)- we bought a quantity of 1500s as well when the mesh APs and WLAN APs could all run on the same code in our WiSM environment. Then came the bewildering day when the code trains got on different tracks, and Cisco's answer was "just buy new WiSMs to dedicate your mesh APs!" Heck of a deal there... so, since then we have had very expensive door stops hanging around as this insanity certainly didn't warrant yet another hardware purchase. Cisco should have stepped up and offered to buy back all of the 1500s that people felt they could not make use of after the code debacle. That these are already end-of-sale does not surprise me. It's been an interesting ride to say the least since we moved from autonomous. -Lee -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Hector J Rios Sent: Sat 7/26/2008 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 1500 Mesh End-of-sale I'm curious to know how many of you got burned by this. We bought 16 of these radios last year and the day the end-of-sale announcement was made we were installing the last one. To us, we pretty much have no choice but to bite the bullet and purchase the 1520s; that is, if we want to have seamless coverage and not maintain controllers on different software versions. End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Aironet 1500 Series Outdoor Mesh Access Points http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5679/ps6548/eol_c5 1-471232.html Hector Rios Telecommunications Analyst, NI LSU Information Technology Services ********** 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
