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What is a realistic way to minimize inter-controller roaming in a large multibuilding campus?
The correct answer is A. Each controller must belong to a different mobility group. In a large multi-building campus, assigning each building's controllers to a separate mobility group localizes roaming events, preventing clients from unnecessarily crossing controller boundaries across the entire campus.
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What is a realistic way to minimize inter-controller roaming in a large multibuilding campus?
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- AEach controller must belong to a different mobility group.
- BAll APs must join a single controller across the entire campus.
- CAPs in each building must join the same controller.
- DAPs in each building must be load balanced across controllers.
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A84% (27)
- B3% (1)
- C9% (3)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
In a large multi-building campus, assigning each building's controllers to a separate mobility group localizes roaming events, preventing clients from unnecessarily crossing controller boundaries across the entire campus.
Placing each building's controllers in a separate mobility group localizes roaming to within that group, so clients associated to a building's APs perform intra-mobility-group roaming rather than spanning controllers across all buildings. This is the standard Cisco design recommendation for large campuses to contain inter-controller roaming within defined architectural boundaries.
Joining all APs campus-wide to a single controller is not realistic or scalable for a large multi-building deployment, and creates a critical single point of failure.
Having all APs in a building join the same controller reduces intra-building inter-controller roaming but does not address the campus-wide mobility group architecture needed to contain roaming across buildings.
Load balancing APs across multiple controllers per building would increase inter-controller roaming events because clients within the same building would move between different controllers more frequently.
Concept tested: Cisco WLC mobility group design for roaming containment
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/technotes/8-8/b_RoamingDomains_FINAL.html
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