While you should be able to connect them this way, there is no need to.

This is the better way.

router ----- switch ==== multiple access points

For Deco, the main unit controls them so you need to have the satellite units behind it.

For EAPs, each access point is independent of others. You configure them either independently (access each EAP's web page), or you have an OC200 or Omada software controller that manages all of them.

You can also mesh them via wifi, but there is no separate channel for mesh, so throughput is reduced.

The OC200 will not show wired devices, but a future release (tp-link's sdn controller, which should be released soonish, or maybe sometime this year, and should just be a software upgrade for the OC200) should be able to manage a TP-Link switch.

nojak wrote

While you should be able to connect them this way, there is no need to.

 

This is the better way.

router ----- switch ==== multiple access points

 

For Deco, the main unit controls them so you need to have the satellite units behind it.

For EAPs, each access point is independent of others. You configure them either independently (access each EAP's web page), or you have an OC200 or Omada software controller that manages all of them.

You can also mesh them via wifi, but there is no separate channel for mesh, so throughput is reduced.

 

The OC200 will not show wired devices, but a future release (tp-link's sdn controller, which should be released soonish, or maybe sometime this year, and should just be a software upgrade for the OC200) should be able to manage a TP-Link switch.

@nojak 

Of course I can do the obvious router -> switch -> access points/OC200/Wired devices.

But I really like the idea of being able to see and manage both wired and wireless clients.

Being able to to manage both the Wifi using OC200/Cloud and a TP-Link switch would fulfill my wish but i'm very cautious with promises like "soonish".

Perhaps someone from TP-Link can verify this and give insights in to which TP-Link switch we would be talking about as I intend to purchase a solution in the next few weeks.

TP-Link has not provided any dates for the SDN controller that I can find. These two links may help.

https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/202078

https://www.tp-link.com/us/solution/omada-sdn/

If you have devices that can be managed via the SDN controller, it just detects devices on the local LAN. How they are connected does not matter.

Perhaps @jonas or @forrest from TP-Link can provide some more info.

nojak wrote

TP-Link has not provided any dates for the SDN controller that I can find. These two links may help.

 

https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/202078

https://www.tp-link.com/us/solution/omada-sdn/

 

If you have devices that can be managed via the SDN controller, it just detects devices on the local LAN. How they are connected does not matter.

 

Perhaps @jonas or @forrest from TP-Link can provide some more info.

@nojak 

Hi,

The SDN solution products will be published in the next month. And we will update the informatino in official website about which kinds of products will support the SDN solution.

@jonas thank you for the info.