I am not convinced myself that it will be. We deal with both Cisco and Meraki deployments and both have a good fit for specific customers.   The traditional wireless LAN controller offers a lot of flexibility, we have a number of customers who would be lost without tunnelling capabilities of the WLC's.         ... View more

Hi, assuming that the data being shown is accurate this means one of two things:   1. There is so much noise (interference) in that area of the client that SNR is unbelievably low. 2. The RSSI of the client is so low that the SNR readings are unusable.   I would be inclined to believe number 2 before 1 without further information. What is the RSSI of a client when they show a reading for SNR of "0"?   From the prime data you should be able to see which AP the client was on when it reported that level of SNR.    On the WLC for this AP you should confirm what the transmit powers on the AP's currently are.    If you can I would suggest getting a proper wireless survey of the area completed would be beneficial.   Regards ... View more

No, if you are just interested in seeing client performance data then they are (largely) irrelevant. A normal prime installation will give you all of that data.   MSE is for location services Assurance is tailored towards collaboration solutions. ... View more

For this scenario I would say it is a really bad idea. The speed that the FLT's can actually move around a building is surprisingly fast, old warehouse systems are notoriously susceptible to poor roaming.   I would say that using hand held devices is the wrong thing to be doing. If they had vehicle mounted computers, most from the big vendors such as Zebra come with external antenna mounting options. You can actually fit an antenna on the roof of the FLT and cable it into the computer. 99% of the warehouses we do we supply like this, going down the mesh route is over complicating it in my opinion.   More recently we deployed wireless in a large freezer, the FLT have fully enclosed insulated triple glazed cabs on them, we had the antenna mounted externally and they work flawlessly.   It sounds more like someone tried to save money by just telling the FLT users to use a hand held scanner (which they probably already had)   ... View more

Hi, if you get the MAC address from a wireless client, you can go to Monitor -> Clients   Filter the table by that MAC address and choose the client.   The screen that will open will include a graph of SNR and RSSI over time. It basically lists all the AP's the client was connected to and a graph of both readings.    If your testing clients support CCX you can also run a link test from the same screen. ... View more

10 is still well under half maximum tx power. These are at 10metres ... View more

The problem with rrm is that it has no way of knowing that the APs are 10m above client level. So with Omni directional antenna the APs will be hearing their neighbours way above client level and making their decisions based on that.   You can change the minimum tx level allowed by adjusting the figure in 802.11a / 802.11bg -> TPC Or if you are using RF profiles do it per profile.    I have never done a single warehouse deploent regardless of antenna where you can get away with leaving RRM in its default state. ... View more

There is not really a technical reason to not do this and I have worked on similar scenarios. Some people may have 2 data centres for example and want a HA pair in each data centre.   Points to think about though, if you want to add a second WLC away from HA, you will need to license it fully which is usually expensive.   Also you can do it from the global AP configuration to avoid having to do it on every AP individually.   ... View more

What you want to achieve is possible with NPS and we have customers using it. If you are doing this for cabled users, the switch will become a radius client within NPS.   In some ways the VLAN's are largely irrelevant to NPS, all it is a response as a radius attribute that the switch will apply to the port. As long as the VLAN you respond with exists on the switch it will be applied and work correctly.    The only caveat of the above is that whatever your NPS server responds with must exist on all switches that a user may connect to to authenticate on the network.   ... View more

How are you configuring this? True HA will only work over a layer 2 link.   If you are doing geographically separate locations it is slightly different.  ... View more