Cisco 9115AXI ME Supported

[Syed Farhan Ali]

Dear Fellows,

I need help on the following scenarios.

1) Can you please confirm if Cisco 9115AXI Access Point can join to Cisco 1852I (Working as a Master Controller) and running Mobility Express.

2) Can you please confirm if Cisco 9115AXI Access Point can join to Cisco 1832I (Working as a Master Controller) and running Mobility Express.

If the answer to above questions is Yes, then please confirm which IOS Image needs to be run on it.

Regards,

Farhan.

[Flavio Miranda]

Hi

As per cisco docs, it does not support.

Master Access Points Supported Model Numbers
AIR-AP2802I-x-K9C
AIR-AP2802E-x-K9C
Cisco Aironet® 2800 Series
AIR-CAP3602I-x-K9
AIR-CAP3602E-x-K9
Cisco Aironet® 3600 Series
AIR-CAP3702I-x-K9
AIR-CAP3702E-x-K9
Cisco Aironet® 3700 Series
AIR-AP3802I-x-K9C
AIR-AP3802E-x-K9C

Master Access Points # of Access Points Supported # of Clients Supported
Cisco Aironet® 1540 Series 50 1000
Cisco Aironet® 1560 Series 100 2000
Cisco Aironet® 1815I Series 50 1000
Cisco Aironet® 1815M Series 50 1000
Cisco Aironet® 1815W Series 50 1000
Cisco Aironet® 1830 Series 50 1000
Cisco Aironet® 1850 Series 50 1000
Cisco Aironet® 2800 Series 100 2000
Cisco Aironet® 3800 Series 100 2000

[Rich R]

But you could consider doing it the other way around. 

Use the 9115 as your controller with the wave 2 APs connected to that.

On Catalyst 9100 series it's called EWC - Embedded Wireless Controller (on AP):

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/embedded-wireless-controller-catalyst-access-points/white-paper-c11-743398.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/catalyst-9800-series-wireless-controllers/nb-o6-embded-wrls-cont-ds-cte-en.html

EWC runs on IOS-XE (same as 9800 series WLC) which in my opinion is better than ME on AireOS and will have a longer support lifetime.