How old is the 1142 wifi access point?

[Just Someone YKnow]

How long was the Aironet 1142 wifi access point in production? When was it first available for purchase?

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

September 2009

[Saurav Lodh]

Few details are over here

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/aironet-1140-series/eos-eol-notice-listing.html

[GrzegorzMichalowski97453]

Is this a good AP? I'm wondering between two models of AP's 1142 and 2602.

Second one is more expensive and have MIMO 3x4 (1142 have 2x3)

This 2602 is much better than 1142?

Is it worth paying more?

And one more think, i have WLC 2112 (i donk know witch IOS).

On this page https://community.cisco.com/t5/other-wireless-mobility-subjects/cap-2602-not-registering-with-wlc4402/td-p/2294468 i check, this AP 2602 required IOS in version from 7.4.

On WLC2112 is aviailable softwera to menage this AP's?

I need to configure "handover" between 3 AP's, maby i cad do this without WLC?

[patoberli]

The 2600 series is considerable newer (I think two generations) than the 1142.
Here is its datasheet: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/aironet-2600-series/data_sheet_c78-709514.html
Problem is, your WLC 2112 only supports up to 7.0 software, while the 2600 AP requires 7.2.110.0 or newer. That means you can't use it.
Because of this, you might want to get another 1142.

[GrzegorzMichalowski97453]

Thanks for your answer.

What mean newest "two generation" in practice? Faster? (really perceptible 300 vs 450Mbs) What else? In practice.

Maybe I'm gonna give up this WLC and try to configure roaming between this 2602 AP in standalone mode.

This made be small WiFi infrastructure in big apartment, without ip calling etc, only internet, smart home devices etc.

[patoberli]

It's probably a few % faster and has probably a little bit better reach.
But! Roaming will not work (with WPA2-AES) without short outages if you run them in standalone mode.

[GrzegorzMichalowski97453]

Thanx!