I face the usual motley collection of kinds of spaces that I need to supply wireless to. Is there some documentation that describes the different AP models, and what environment each is best suited for? When you look at the end-of-life matrix for APs (
End of life | Aruba (arubanetworks.com) and filter by "Access Points") it lays out how the families of access points are related to each other, and the generations evolve over time. That document maps out that, for example,
103H->203H->303H->503H
and
115->215->315->510series
and
125->225->325->520series
and
135->235->335->530series
etc.
What I'm looking for is a document that tells me where I should use a hospitality vs ceiling mounted, and within the ceiling-mounted APs, which ones are small rooms vs big rooms vs giant rooms, which ones are for a packed room vs sparsely-populated room -- all of those design considerations.
I have a campus deployment that consists of AP-105s, AP-135s, AP-225s, AP-215s, AP-103Hs, AP-205Hs, and an AP-275, and all of these need to be replaced.
I have spaces in modern (flimsy) drywall construction where signal bleeds widely, and spaces in 100+-year-old buildings which have 8-inch-thick masonry interior walls where every individual room is a radio-isolated bunker.
I have some spare APs in my cabinet, and I have some spaces that need coverage -- of the spaces that I have and the APs that I have on hand, I need to understand what is the right AP to put in which kind of space.
I need to understand where I have an older device that is well-suited to its spot and it needs to be replaced with the newer generation of the same series, versus the space where the device isn't well-matched and the replacement should be from a different series.
I'm sure that someone has laid this all out somewhere, right?
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Cathy Fasano
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