APX Wireless Support

What does this have to do with anything?

APX will be supported in 17.5 MR1 

In addition, coming in a following Maintenance Release we have:

Wireless APX Access Point Support

provides support for the new Wave 2 access points providing faster connectivity and added scalability.

You maybe should be honest to the people, not giving them to high expectations into this. As far as I heared, Sophos will not publish all available Wireless Functionalities from Central to the XG?

Spoken from a functional level, you will make the XG able to manage APX Accesspoints as XG can manage current AP 15/55/100 already. Feature like Air-Time-Fairness and other cool gadgets are not planned to come to XG, right?

@HuberChristian - Let me try to clarify the release situation and wanted to apologize on behalf of our team if we created any confusion in our communication. 

APX support is planned for 17.5 MR. We're still targeting this by the end of this year or early next near. A typical release cycle is we finish the main release and then we deliver MR based on escalations, issues, updates etc. within 4-6 weeks. 

The features you're referring to are available on Central though there is a significant opportunity to add some of the features (Not all) that would enhance radio resource management and overall wireless stability/quality into XG. Unfortunately, some of these configurations and flexibility may not be possible with APX on XG. Please unicast a message to me, more than happy to provide an update. 

Hello ShailTalati,

why only an unicast message to HuberChristian?!

I would like to know too which features will not be available in XG v17.x vs. Sophos Central. I really wonder why it is not possible to implement some features in XG v17.x and Sophos Central yes.

What reasons prevent it?

Regards

alda

A typical Cloud feature train is every 3-Weeks, so there is a much more flexibility in delivering features on Sophos Central based management.

XG based solution delivers typically TWO major releases per year so the feature release is going to be slower from Wireless perspective. Sophos will continuously invest in both platforms but the agility and speed are going to be different. Hope this helps to clarify why APX support is coming to XG after 3-4 months compare to Central. 

There is always going to be some feature delta especially some of the unique Central specific features (i.e. scalability with multi-site, deployment ease, Advanced Rogue AP detection etc.). 

What we plan to bring to XG from Central? 

1. Common core wireless driver (This is a BIG deal !) - This would make No. 2 possible in future. 

2. Better Radio Resource Management.

3. Bug fixes and debugging to make our customers/partners/Sophos Support's workflow better.

Hello ShailTalati,

Thank you very much for your explanation of the situation. I thought, based on HuberChristian's statement, that some features would not be implemented in XG v17.x, but by your statement, their implementation to XG v17.x is only a matter of another development cycle.

Do I understand it correctly?

Regards

alda

ShailTalati said:

1. Common core wireless driver (This is a BIG deal !) - This would make No. 2 possible in future.

Thanks for your valuable Information. Will this come also for the Classic APs? As far as I know, you guys are using different drivers for the AP15/55/100 in Central and in UTM/XG?

Any news for this?

It's a poor situation because I've to sell old hardware to wok with the "NEW" XG firewall.
The are APX's only working with a connection to Central and I must invest a lot of time in design, managing and create new processes.
By the way the costs Sophos want for hook up the APX in Central.

From an MSP perspective, it's an disaster!

As described here: https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/posts/sfos-17-5-mr1-released, the update with APX support will be released on Feb 10.

Kind regards,
Dome