Discussions like this just reinforce the notion that no one-customer is the same as another. Folks like myself have been rock solid where others seem to excite every little bug. There are also customers who want to push the cutting edge with code version and feature-set, but are not well-resourced to support it and/or have the expectation that it should be as stable as general deployment code.
The important part is to make sure you have a great relationship with your local wireless SE’s as well as the Wireless BU. I can’t say enough good things about the folks in the BU, especially the engineering teams, who I’ve interfaced with over the years. Jeff From: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of "lhbad...@syr.edu" <lhbad...@syr.edu> Reply-To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 4:50 PM To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Another Cisco WLC Code Thread I really hope someone from Cisco's Wireless BU monitors these conversations. It just never seems to improve for very long. Whereas you have no faith in HA, we've written off AVC. But hey, Fastlane! -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Bernard [j...@clemson.edu] Received: Tuesday, 19 Dec 2017, 19:35 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Another Cisco WLC Code Thread To expand, we instantly had issues with 8.5.105.0. We haven't tried 8.5.110.0 yet, but I'm sure our wireless team is looking for anything better. They have little hope of ever getting HA working. Thanks, Joseph B. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Joseph Bernard <j...@clemson.edu<mailto:j...@clemson.edu>> wrote: Don’t move off 8.4.100.0 if you can help it. Thanks, Joseph B. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> on behalf of Britton Anderson <blanders...@alaska.edu<mailto:blanders...@alaska.edu>> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 3:43 PM To: "WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Another Cisco WLC Code Thread Happy Holidays, Like many others I'm sure, I've been studying all of the email threads from this list to see if anyone has settled on any of the current code releases on their controllers. With all of the bugs disabling several AP models, we have been holding off our code upgrade and wireless migration. I have a plan to move about half of our wireless APs off of a pair of WiSM2s to our new 8540's next week. We've had the 8540's up since the summer running on 8.4.100.0 seemingly without many issues. It's been pretty stable but there has only been about 80 APs on it for our Fall semester. That code release is now deferred and we've looked at going up to 8.5.110.0 which released just a few days ago. Release notes list the open caveats, and there are several that still impact the 3500/3600/3700 lines pretty hard. 8.6.101.0 released a day after, and its even more grim. Has anyone found anything stable? We have a pretty wide deployment of APs, but most of them are 3500/3600/3700s with a fleet of 702W/1810W in residences. We simply don't have the manpower to run around and console into APs that lose their marbles, and our time slot to move forward is narrowing by the day. And more importantly, I would like to sleep better over the holidays, like we all would I'm sure. 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