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Controller Vs IAP wifi performance

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  • 1.  Controller Vs IAP wifi performance

    Posted Sep 29, 2019 01:55 PM

    I am trying to determine if there are any advantages of using Controller based vs IAP(managed by Airwave) other than GRE Tunnel for Guest & central point management for APs? 

    Does Controller managed AP has any advantage on Wifi performance over IAP?

    AP Model:300 series

    Number of total APs: ~400 (small clusters in remote office bldgs)



  • 2.  RE: Controller Vs IAP wifi performance

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Sep 29, 2019 02:29 PM

    There is no performance advantage for controllers vs. IAPs.  The main guiding principle for controllers vs. IAPs is Centralized LAN (Controllers) vs. Distributed Enterprize (Instant).

     

    EDIT:  There are some features like GRE tunneling that only exist on the controller-based platform of course.