Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review

It's the central controller. There's actually two HA systems. So each data center has a wireless controller and about 2000 APs converged to each one, and that number's going to grow to about 3000 APs per controller and they're used in an Active-Active N+1 setup. So all of our wireless is done in central switching. We don't do any flex connect or local switching. So all wireless traffic converges to just these two boxes.

Yes and no. I mean, I think there's an unnecessary convolution to the rollout of those policies tags and how you integrate them to a group of access points. Again, I get why they did that because it was seen as though you would recycle a lot of them and instead of building unique ones for each, but you find that, I have found that if you have a large enough enterprise, you have a large enough vertical or horizontal integration to your enterprise, you find that one site or one class of devices that are in a specific site, very different requirements are very different peculiarities or bugs or whatever compatibilities that require you to tailor those sets of parameters and those configurations specifically to that area and that site, but not elsewhere. You know what I mean? And so you find that from your beginning design, it becomes important to think about those things ahead of time, even though none of the tools or none of the design guides or deployment guides really get you thinking in that way again. So it's say, an experienced person could leverage those tools or those tools, leverage that design hierarchy more quickly or more. They could see where the problems would be on the horizon and design around that. But no, I don't think what they were trying to do with that really pays off. And so if there's a value, was that a value question? Is there, or am I just supposed to vetch how easy or difficult? Gosh, I mean it, I would put it at a four out of 10 in terms of 10 being the simplest and zero being the hardest. Yeah, I mean, I actually think it's too complex. Even as somebody that built a pretty insane architecture within all of those policies and tags and managing, I think I'm managing probably 85 site tags among right now, probably like 5000 access points and more coming all the time. So yeah, not a novice on it whatsoever. But yeah, I look forward to what they do in code moving forward to better arrange that sort of problem and help people get the right architecture or design. So yeah, probably a four out of 10. It could be way better actually.