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Considerations in HA designs

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Considerations in HA designs

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
The various Wi-Fi vendors have different ways of handling redundancy in the event that an access point (AP) or WLAN controller should fail. One variable to consider when designing a controller-based network for high availability are the applications you intend to run. Read full story

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

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