New Cisco Wireless Configuration
we have just purchased a Cisco aeronet hardware setup for our multiple offices, to replace a very shaky Sonicpoint configuration (2 years with open support tickets with Sonicwall for dropping connections, and still no solutions!).
The plan is to set up across our 3 sites, with 2 3501 APs in our London and Manchester offices, and 1 3501 in our smaller Liverpool office; with the central 2504 controller in our Manchester office. We currently use separate private and public SSIDs at each site, but i am planning to make this just a single SSID for public, and another for Private network. From my understanding, I will need to configure the remote APs for H-REAP and also will need to setup VLANs for this all to work properly.
The previous configuration was a lot simpler, due to the Sonicwall NSA4500 firewalls at each site managing the VLANning and general running of the APs at each site! We are also running true-IP Mitel phones at each site, running through HP Procurve 5400 series PoE switches - very simple configuration, VLAN 1 for data (untagged), VLAN 2 for voice (tagged).
After reading through the multiple documents on Cisco's website I am (as usual with Cisco) a little bogged down in how best to set this configuration up! There are mentions of using just 1 port on the 2504 for management and trunking to the switch, and others mention using a spearate port for the data trunk. I am also unclear about how to route the public SSID out through each of the NSA4500 firewalls at each site locally.
Can anyone offer some advice please?
The plan is to set up across our 3 sites, with 2 3501 APs in our London and Manchester offices, and 1 3501 in our smaller Liverpool office; with the central 2504 controller in our Manchester office. We currently use separate private and public SSIDs at each site, but i am planning to make this just a single SSID for public, and another for Private network. From my understanding, I will need to configure the remote APs for H-REAP and also will need to setup VLANs for this all to work properly.
The previous configuration was a lot simpler, due to the Sonicwall NSA4500 firewalls at each site managing the VLANning and general running of the APs at each site! We are also running true-IP Mitel phones at each site, running through HP Procurve 5400 series PoE switches - very simple configuration, VLAN 1 for data (untagged), VLAN 2 for voice (tagged).
After reading through the multiple documents on Cisco's website I am (as usual with Cisco) a little bogged down in how best to set this configuration up! There are mentions of using just 1 port on the 2504 for management and trunking to the switch, and others mention using a spearate port for the data trunk. I am also unclear about how to route the public SSID out through each of the NSA4500 firewalls at each site locally.
Can anyone offer some advice please?
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