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Cloud Controller vs Hardware controller

Cloud Controller vs Hardware controller
Cloud Controller vs Hardware controller
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I am planning a transition from a 10 years old OpenMesh system to an Omada System. My current OpenMesh setup is 100% web based and so I am considering to move to a an Omada Cloud based system. The network access is Voucher based. It's a hight traffic area were hundreds of people will open up the captive portal where they will be asked to put a vocher code to autenticate. Only about 15% of people will use a voucher code . Is the captive portal and authentication take place locally at the Access Point or Hardware Controller , or is it still managed on cloud at the Omada Server ? 

Also , if I use a cloud based controller do I still need a hardware Gateway (ER605 for example) or can I just connect the the AP and Switches to the internet ?

 

Would you consider a hardware controller to be faster/more efficient than the cloud based controller ?

 

Thanks in advance.

Pakal

 

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Re:Cloud Controller vs Hardware controller
10 hours ago

  @Pakal 

 

For that much traffic hitting a portal, definitely go with a hardware controller (which also doesnt need device licenses) - in your case i would suggest OC300.  It isnt too expensive

 

Controller handles all aspects of the portal, nothing is done on the gateway or EAPs

 

You can adopt whatever devices you need, you dont have to adopt a gateway to manage access points

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Re:Cloud Controller vs Hardware controller
6 hours ago

  @GRL 

Thanks for your reply. If I go with a hardware controller (OC300) I guess both the controller and all the APs have to be on the same subnet mask managed by any brand router/switch. What would be the convenience of adding an Omada gateway and/or Omada switches, if I already have other switches (although unmanaged) in place? 

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Re:Cloud Controller vs Hardware controller
2 hours ago - last edited 2 hours ago

  @Pakal 

 

ACLs to control inter-vlan communiocation, URL filtering, IDS / IPS, VPNs, switch ports that dont automatically put someone plugging something into a port on the management vlan......lots of things

 

For a big deployment with users in the hundreds ER605 wouldnt cut it, its not designed for that.

ER7206 v2 / ER7406 / ER707-M2 would all be fine for this, ER8411 if you want higher bandwidth WAN/LAN in the future

Switch wise SG2008 or higher support all omada features like ACLs, the ES series is a basic omada switch can has far less features

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