Not funny for anyone who bought a 5506 thinking it was a drop in upgrade from the 5505. Also not funny for anyone who is yet to learn this.

As discussed here and elsewhere, you would be perfectly right if it were not that Cisco is positioning this device as a replacement for the 5505. I have a 5506-X sitting on my desk.  It's a nice piece of hardware, but in spirit, all we really wanted ...

Does anyone know if there is a status update on this issue?  

The Atom C2000 series is an SoC with 2 GE interfaces, so looks like one of them is used for the management interface.From reading other literature, looks like the NPU has at least 9 interfaces, with one being used for the AP.  So, really, you could s...

Does this slide suggest that there is a hardware limitation here that is not software fixable?