I dont believe office extend is available except with 5508 controllers

Hi Spiro,

Pete is correct here (+5 points Pete :)

Here are two references to this fact;

The OfficeExtend consists of remote site and corporate office components.

The components at the remote site are:

• A router with an Internet connection

• Cisco Aironet® 1140 Series or Cisco Aironet 1130AG Series Access Point

• Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone (optional)

The corporate office components are:

• Cisco 5500 Series Wireless LAN Controller with WirelessPLUS software

• Cisco Wireless Control System

• Cisco Secure Access Control Server

Cisco OfficeExtend

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns430/solution_overview_c22-523307.html

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers: New Features***

This release introduces the Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controller, a highly scalable and flexible platform that enables systemwide services for mission-critical wireless in medium-sized to large enterprises and campus environments. Table 2 describes the new Cisco Wireless LAN Controller features available with this release. These features are supported by Cisco 2100, 4400 and 5500 Series Wireless LAN Controllers; Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series WiSM and 7600 Series Router; Cisco WLCM and WLCM-E for integrated services routers; and the Cisco Catalyst 3750G

Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers. ***Cisco WirelessPLUS software is available only on the Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controllers.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps6302/ps8322/ps10315/product_bulletin_c25-530367.pdf

Hope this helps!

Rob

PS: I think we will be taking a serious look at moving to the 5500 series.

Any router that can do VPN will do fine.

Regarding Office Extend feature, it is correct that this is a new "feature" with the new 5508 controller running the new IOS, 6.X. No one as yet knows if the Office Extend feature will be extended to the WLC200/2100, 4400 or the WiSM. I am suspecting that because Office Extend is a license feature, I have no doubt that this will be exclusive to the 5508.

Because the 5508 can AP support license can support 25, 50, 100 and 250, anticipate the End-Of-Sale announcement of the WLC 2100 and the WLC 4400.