In this video I'll be demoing how to provision an SD-Access wireless fabric in Cisco DNA Center. If you have any questions feel free to drop them in the comment section or reach out directly to me in LinkedIn.
Hi Pablo. Could I use the same WLC (in a datacenter) to manage 2 different fabric sites(branches)? It already does in the traditional network (capwap+flexconnect)
Pablo, if we have an existing brownfield controller with many SSIDs and APs can we change the controller to fabric mode and add some fabric APs without affecting the existing traditional deployment at other sites?
Hi, Yes you can have a shared WLC to manage Fabric and non-Fabric APs. Fabric is enabled per SSID not per controller. Please refer to CiscoLive session in the on-demand catalog: Fabric Fundamentals - Integrating wireless into SD-Access (Fabric Enabled Wireless) - BRKEWN-2308, for more information on this.
@@pabmart Thanks Pablo. I’ll have a look at that. It’s something customers with existing standard deployments ask as a way to keep their existing setup and migrate to SDA wireless in a staged manner on the same controllers.
Can also leave existing controllers in place, deploy new controllers in parallel, then start migrating APs on an area by area basis... So, you could have floor 1 in the new controller fabric enabled and the rest of the floors on the older controller non-fabric. Just a thought.
When you create an SSID in Network Design, attach it to a Network Profile and assign to the site(s), it will show up in the summary of the provision workflow. It then gets provisioned to the WLC. Hope that helps.
