Hi All,
I come from a Cisco WLAN background so please bear with me . Within a typical, centralised Cisco enterprise deployment there would be a Wireless LAN Controller and a number of APs. Typically the WLC is sized based upon the number of APs (and clients) that will be terminated there (LWAPP) - So, for example, an 8540 is sized for up to 6000 APs and 64k clients.
Are there similar recommendations wrt Mikrotik Routers (that act similarly to WLCs) ?. ie, recommended models for typical numbers of AP deployments ?.
I don’t have much experience with capsman. But I think about things this way:
Systems that tunnel user traffic back to the controller don’t scale. So, modern systems just use the controller for command and control. This makes the workload of a controller minimal.
Mikrotik only makes two products that cost more than $1,000. So, in any deployment where you’re really concerned with power, just sort by highest price and buy that one (and grin every time you don’t have to renew your Smartnet contract).
If you’re not so concerned about scale because it’s a small deployment, test running capsman on one of the APs.
. Within a typical, centralised Cisco enterprise deployment there would be a Wireless LAN Controller and a number of APs. Typically the WLC is sized based upon the number of APs (and clients) that will be terminated there (LWAPP) - So, for example, an 8540 is sized for up to 6000 APs and 64k clients.