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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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Question

What is a realistic way to minimize inter-controller roaming in a large multibuilding campus?

Options

  • 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)
  • A
    84% (27)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    9% (3)
  • D
    3% (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.

AEach controller must belong to a different mobility group.Correct

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.

BAll APs must join a single controller across the entire campus.

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.

CAPs in each building must join the same controller.

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.

DAPs in each building must be load balanced across controllers.

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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#inter-controller roaming#mobility group#campus design#controller assignment

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