Aerohive has shipped over 500,000 controller-less access points. This infographic shows the impact to the future of the entire world that even the 500,000 APs we have already shipped is making. Controllers are on their last legs. A vestigial appendage of a by-gone era of Wi-Fi. This infographic illustrates why controllers need to go SOONER THAN LATER …

1. THE 500,OOOTH
AEROHIVE AP
HAS BEEN SHIPPED!
Based on a typical AP to Controller ratio1
since 2006, Aerohive’s Controller-less Solution
would have saved the world from 19,808 controllers! 1
Build 1.2
Statues of Liberty! 5
Fun facts
Total overall height from
the base of the pedestal
foundation to the tip of the
torch is 305 feet, 6 inches
The Statue has a
35-foot waistline
Total weight of the
Statue of Liberty is 225 tons
(or 450,000 pounds)
Fun facts
Seats 210 – 330 passengers
Wingspan: 197 feet (60 m)
Length: 186 – 224 feet (68 m)
Height: 56 feet (17 m)
Total Cargo Volume:
4,400 – 6,187 feet3 (175 m3)
Fun facts
5-door hatchback
Weighs 3,042 pounds
Holds up to 21.6 cu. ft. of cargo with the rear seat
raised, and swallows 67.3 cu. ft. of cargo with the
rear seats folded down
The metal that it would take to build those controllers would also...
Fill the cargo space of 1.8
Boeing 787 Dreamliners 5
Build 194
Toyota Prius cars! 5
2006 2013
AP
Controller
19,808
Hardware Energy
100
80
60
40
20
90
70
50
30
10
100
80
60
40
20
90
70
50
30
10
Saved
Spent
Spent
Between controller hardware and energy costs,
this could have saved businesses
~$184,000,000
and pump it back into businesses! **
To offset that much CO2 you would have
to plant 11,492,318 trees
and let them grow for 10 years! 4
1 62 74 9 115 10 123 8
That is the CO2 emission equivalent of taking
~93,000 cars off the road for 1 year! 4
Trees
CO2
Sources – assumes 500K APs running on controllers for 7 years:
* Aerohive AP product shipments from 2006 inception through 11/30/2013
** $184M equals sum of estimated cost savings of (1) Hardware cost savings of $117,719,198, based on 19,808 controllers x $5,943.04 average cost per controller (per Infonetics, 2Q2013 Wireless LAN equipment Market
Forecast) and (2) Energy cost savings of $66,256,542.76, based on 19,808 controllers x average power usage of a Cisco WLAN controller capable of supporting 25+ APs x US EIA Average Retail Price of Electricity for Com-
mercial businesses as of Sept 2013, assuming usage from 2006 to 2013 (7 years).
1 Calculation based on Infonetics 2Q2013 Wireless LAN equipment Market Forecast of controller unit shipments and access points shipped from 2006 to 2013
2 US EIA - http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Aruba
4 EPA.gov
5 Calculation based on available power usage of a Cisco WLAN controller capable of managing 25+ APs
Eliminating 19,808 controllers over the last 7 years would have saved enough power
to light up the Island of Aruba for 10 months! 3
Global AP shipments forecast from 2014 – 2016
46,517,936!
4
Does the world REALLY need an additional 1,842,8451
controllers to
support them?
Controller-less – The Choice For A Better Tomorrow
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