The evolution of the WLAN industry has been a curious, somewhat flip-floppy study in design philosophy. Stand alone, intelligent access points got the party started over a decade ago, and somewhere along the line lost favor to controller-based super systems. Now the big, expensive controller has become a target for frequent criticism as a growing number of vendors present innovative alternatives to funneling all WLAN traffic back to a central processing point. Bluesocket is among the latest to de-emphasize the importance of the controller, while also adding management of wired users with its recently introduced vWLAN 2.1 platform.
Network Computing