Aruba makes a capital distinction between CAP and RAP. In terms of capacity on a controller, 1 CAP kills 4 RAP's, that is how I look at it.
But it appears that on a private ipsec or mpls network, there is no technical reason for this distinction. Or am I mistaken ? Sure, we tunnel twice with a RAP but that is a small price to pay between 8 AP or 32 AP's on a W620.
This is not a rant : I appreciate/respect businessmodels, aruba-personnel need to get paid, Aruba Networks deserves to grow etc etc.
It's just that the distinction is so great & blatant, that I feel I missed something in the configuration and I look for justification in the business side.
thx for killing this one for me