Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
by Mark L. Gress - CCIE 25539, Lee Johnson
Chapter 13. H-REAP
With the advent of centralized wireless networking, you can take advantage of the benefits of a single point of administration for hundreds of APs. Using Wireless Control System (WCS) and WCS Navigator, you can centrally administer tens of thousands of APs from a single device. Wireless controllers, WCS, and Navigator, however, are expensive products. Should you need to implement a wireless solution at a remote office connected to your central network via a WAN, it can be cost prohibitive to install even a 2100 series controller to service only one or two APs.
Also, with Lightweight Access Point Protocol/Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (LWAPP/CAPWAP), all the client traffic, even to the local network, would ...
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