How many AP's will a 3850 stack support?

[romeyrome]

I'm using a stack of (4) 3850's and would like to validate how many AP's I can connect.  I'm reading in Cisco Live presentations that a 3850 stack will only support 50 AP's.  I'm wondering if this limitation only applies to converged access or if it applies to conventional L2 switching.  

I believe the 50 AP limitation has more to do with how many AP's you could physically place in a 100M radius without major co-channel interference and overlapping RF .

If I am not running a converged access WLC on this 3850 stack can I connect more than 50 AP's?

Thanks much!

[Reza Sharifi]

The limit is 50 per stack.

see link:

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-2960-x-series-switches/sales-tool-c96-730473.pdf

HTH

[romeyrome]

Thanks for your reply but the row in the linked PDF specifically says 50 AP's for converged access. I'm trying to determine the limitation when converged access is NOT used.

[Reza Sharifi]

Converged access means when you use a switch for both wired and wireless and the switch is the wireless controller.  If you are not going to use the switch as a controller, that means you would have to buy a separate controller and in that case the limitation is how many APs that controller would support.  So the switch is only used for wired network.

HTH

[jhager001]

I'm having a vendor tell me that Cisco only recommends using 25 AP's per converged switch/stack due to roaming issues. I can't find anything that will verify this statement.