Kevin, thanks for info. Regards, Andreas

Andreas, Some additional information / details in regards to the RFS 4000 and RFS 6000. As I mentioned you can posibly increase the bandwidth  by aggregating the UP1 port plus one of the Ge ports. The 8 x 10/100/1000BASE-T ports on the RFS 6000 share a 1Gbps connection to the CPU (8:1 over subscribed) so you can aggregate the UP1 port plus one of the Ge1 - Ge8 ports as long as you do not use the remaining ports for other applications. The RFS 4000 has a slightly different architecture where the odd ports (Ge1, Ge3 & Ge5) share a 1Gbps link to the CPU and the even ports (Ge2 & Ge4) share a 1Gbps link to the CPU. In this case you can aggregate the UP1 port plus one odd or even port as long as the remaining odd or even ports are not used for other applications. Regards, Kevin After chatting with engineering they do not recomend enabling Link Aggregation on the RFS 4000 or  RFS 6000.

Andreas, The adoption count does not change for extended or locally bridged VLAN deployments. Each RFS X000 Controller can support their maximum number of Dependent / Independent Access Points: RFS 4000 = 36 x Dependent / Independent Access Points RFS 6000 = 256 x Dependent / Independent Access Points RFS 7000 = 1,024 x Dependent / Independent Access Points The key is how much throughput each RFS X000 Controller supports. This along with the customers applications will determine how many Access Points you can safely deploy without oversubscription as each RFS X000 Controller has different switching capacities. When traffic is extended to an RFS X000 Controller, the RFS X000 Controller basically becomes the bottleneck for the tunneled traffic. In the case of an RFS 4000 or RFS 6000 Controller, these both support a single 1Gbps uplink port so there switching capacity is limited to 1Gbps. You can potentially increase this to 2Gbps if you aggregate one additional port. The RFS 7000 Controller on the other hand supports 4 x 1Gbps ports which can be aggregated together so it provides a 4Gbps switching capacity. As an 802.11n Access Point has the potential of forwarding up to 200+ Mbps of data to the RFS X000 Controller, you can quickly overwhelm the switching capacity of the RFS X000 Controller. In most cases the customers applications will be pretty light (email, web browsing etc) so this is not an issue - however you might see congestion in envrionments which exchange images or large files over the network. So I guess the real answer to your question is you need to fully understand the customers application bandwidth requirements to safely determine how many Dependent / Independent Access Points you can safely deploy without running into oversubscription issues. Regards, Kevin