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Hi, We're looking at purchasing Cisco's WCS, WiSM bundles and a smaller controller. The WiSM's would sit on the inside network and the smaller controller, perhaps the 4400 for 12 AP's, would sit in the DMZ. We would create and Ethernet over IP tunnel from the inside controllers to the DMZ controller. Does anyone have experience with this equipment or scenario? We're curious to what kind of traffic volume the tunnel would have and if the smaller controllers have enough process power to handle it.

Thanks!

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Allyson.Kearney
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The 4400-12 is the recommended WLC in this scenario. If I remember correctly, it can handle somewhere around 50 mobility groups (tunnels). Unless you have lots of locations that will have only a few AP's, or you have a single location that is going to have more than 100 AP's, you should consider using the 4400's at each location. Keep in mind that the WiSM/4400 are wireless switches. Use the same rules for building WLANs that you would for building a switched network. Using multiple 4400 is probably cheaper too.

Scott

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Thrill5

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