GWN7800 switch and embedded GWN controller

#1

The product page for the GWN7800 series of switches indicates that management options include an “embedded controller” which “can auto discovery and auto-provision any in-network GWN series networking product which also offers a centralized provisioning and management interface.”

I purchased a GWN7801P switch + GWN7661 access points and expected to use the switch as an SDN controller for all 3. However, I haven’t seen any reference to using the switch as a controller in either the web based configuration interfaces or in the product manuals. Can someone point me at an explanation of how to turn this feature on and/or how the access points are expected to be adopted into a network with an embedded controller? All the configuration screens and documentation I see seems to assume that it’s either GWN Cloud or an otherwise dedicated GWN Manager instance, as if the embedded controller option doesn’t exist.

#2

This future work only on routers (not sure that switches are supported). cloud or virtual machine.
Thats all.

#3

Thanks for the answer. Any idea why the product page and data sheet says otherwise?

#4

This is not the question I can answered :wink:

#5
  1. you read the instructions.
  2. you register on the GDMS cloud site.
#6

The embedded controller is supposed to be built into the device, and is an alternative to using the cloud management.

#7

you can use switch as stand laone devices, without controller.

#8

I understand this. I bought other devices with the switch as well. I realize I can log into each device individually as a stand alone device, but this defeats the purpose of using a controller that unifies everything on one SDN.

#9

you can use https://www.gwn.cloud and add GWN7800 and GWN7661 to the cloud and manage them via the cloud, no local controller is required