Aruba instant mode equivalent to cisco?

[ramesh rajendran]

Do you know any cisco feature equivalent to Aruba instant mode?

Customer is keen on cisco access-points, but not ready to buy controllers.

thanks,

[Scott Fella]

Cisco doesn't have a product that is like Aruba Instant. 

[Leah Davis]

Cisco does have a product like Aruba Instant - Cisco WAP500 series. It performs management through Single Point Setup (clustering) without a controller. See: http://ciscobeatsaruba.com/network-solution-comparison-cisco-smb-vs-aruba-instant/

[Michael Sales]

Hi Leah,

You are correct, but it has differences. Unlike IAP's which can scale to 50+, the WAP's are considered "SMB" with a 16 per cluster limit. the IAP's ability to be converted to Controller based management and it's redundancy built in are also big differences.

Just Apples to Oranges. 

[Michael Sales]

Hi,

Scott is correct. Cisco requires a dedicated controller.