Capwap Mailing List: RE: So many architectures, so little time... - take 2

[Mani, Mahalingam (Mahalingam) (mmani]

This in itself justifies the need to be able to seek idiosyncracies and
commonalities of "customer" pressure-points and later sit back to
prioritize them.

Of the two requirements the more thought about is the first (and more of
the core challenge). However,...

-----Original Message-----
From: James Kempf [mailto:kempf [at] docomolabs-usa.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:29 PM
To: Shehzad Merchant; capwap [at] frascone.com
Cc: bwijnen [at] lucent.com; Mani, Mahalingam (Mahalingam);
david.kessens [at] nokia.com; Dorothy.Gellert [at] nokia.com; Inderpreet Singh
Subject: Re: [Capwap] So many architectures, so little time... - take 2

As a potential customer, let me put it concretely. I want to be able to
buy
my access points from Vendor X and my switch from Vendor Y and plug the
two
together and have them work without any configuration. Also, I'd like to
be
able to buy switches from Vendor Y and Vendor Z and be able to plug them

[Mani, Mahalingam (Mahalingam)] 
[Mani, Mahalingam (Mahalingam)] the latter is a new, good and
interesting requirement to consider; whether it goes into desirable or
mandatory bucket remains to be seen.

Also - whether it is a coexistence requirement or interoperability
requirement is to be analyzed as well.

-mani

into my network at various places and have them interoperate.

            jak


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shehzad Merchant" <smerchant [at] extremenetworks.com>
To: <capwap [at] frascone.com>
Cc: <bwijnen [at] lucent.com>; <mmani [at] avaya.com>; <david.kessens [at] 
nokia.com>;
<Dorothy.Gellert [at] nokia.com>; "Inderpreet Singh"
<isingh [at] chantrynetworks.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Capwap] So many architectures, so little time... - take 2


> I think the implementation variations even with the split MAC may
cover a
> broad spectrum. As such its important to clearly articulate what
aspects
of
> interoperability we are targetting. Is it truly just
control/management or
> is it interoperability between disparate implementations of the split
MAC,
> i.e. mix and match operation of WTP and ACs of all variants within
this
> category.
>
> I suspect for the latter we may have to arrive at some consensus on
what
> particular implementations we are targeting interoperability for. If
so,
> ultimately this problem statement could become part of the charter.
>
> -Shehzad
>
[Mani, Mahalingam (Mahalingam)] [...]