Hey Community! I'm excited to share something we've been working on that I think will really resonate with many of you managing wireless networks today. We just released the Cisco State of Wireless Report 2026, based on insights from over 6,000 wirel...
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Hi , i have a 5520 WLC , with more than 1000 AP, and 10 000 users (guest) my custumer wants to use the WLC as Captive portal server. i know that captive portal use a lot of cpu and memory . what are the best practice regarding this please. Thank...
Hello all, Due to limited budget for PS I will be reviewing and taking on doing a wireless hardware refresh of our single 5508 WLC to an H/A 3504 WLC. There's no real guide for doing the migration between hardware models. So I have to questions abo...
We are going to try out FRA in our network, but are not convinced how the COF is calculated. I have been reading the documentation, but cannot find out detailed info on how the COF is calculated. How long is the sensing periode? What about temporaril...
Hi friends. I want to bye the Cisco AP and compare two AP for our organization. I compare AIR-AP2802E-H-K9 and AIR-AP1815W-H-K9, and I found that cost of AIR-AP2802E-H-K9 is triple of the AP1815W-H-K9. what is the difference between of these access p...
Hi wireless expert: I confuse a issue that is aptype.when we run debug command,we can see many debug info output,there will a debug info as below: Example: "apType = 45 apModel: AIR-CAP2702E-H-K9" I want to know whether all kinds of APs have diff...
Hi, The 5508 wlc service port is configured to use dhcp instead of static ip address, however, when I connect a notebook with dhcp server software to the service port, it cannot obtain an ip address from the dhcp server. I tried 'OpenDHCP' and the ...
Hello: I have two WLAN controllers that I would like to update the software on, a 5508 running SW 8.3.130.0, and a 2504 running 8.0.110.0. I'm new to this role & my manager mentioned that the last time an attempt was made to update the software on t...
I'm looking for help designing a mobile wireless solution for sport complexes that is anywhere between 10 and 40 acres, and square. It's wide open for the most part, only interference would be light poles around the fields. Central location would be ...
Hello all, I have been working on a couple 4402 units that I purchased used. Seller said they had loaded firmware and power tested to boot. I purchased 2 units and both of them get stuck after the boot options prompt in CLI. Both units will not ...
Hi, I am connecting a few Cisco Aeronets to Cisco 3750G switches to provide WiFi access. I have created VLANS and given switchport vlan access. I will be receiving Cisco Merakis very soon for a full scale deployment. at what point would I need a ...
what are the steps to upgrade a WLC via cisco prime infrastructure?
Hello, I am using the latest version of Mobility Express, on my Cisco AIR 1562. Everything is working perfectly apart from the fact I have a handful of devices that have IP addresses reserved by Mac in my Windows DHCP. However when my clients conne...
Hi everyone, I would like to know how wlc works at a given situation: We have the ap-group ¨ Students¨, and we want to use a /23 prefix divided into two /24 networks. So we have created two interfaces mapping (vlan1 - 10.10.0.0/24 and vlan2 -10.10....
I was proposed following diagram for connection of wifi guest anhor: Firewall-1: to restrict traffic between LAN and DMZ Firewall-2: provider's device Is it correct design when anchor is connecting by G1 interface towards firewall-1 and by G-2 in...
Hello All, I have a request from our R&D team requesting to extend wireless service to connect Automation devices (to extend the services for IOT) I am more concerned on security and its side effects for IOT. Would you please advise, what thin...
