topic Re: Extreme Wing APs seem to be a legacy workaround inherited from Motorola and Zebra. in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

Extreme Wing APs seem to be a legacy workaround inherited from Motorola and Zebra.

Luis_Agner — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:57:54 GMT

I feel that the antennas, like the 510i, are kind of a hacky solution from Extreme, especially considering they still use a Flash Player interface in 2026. It’s not exactly a problem or a complaint, but it’s bizarre to see this still being used. Extreme does have a management software for WiNG, but even so, they didn’t bother to put at least an HTML5 interface on the antenna itself.

Re: Extreme Wing APs seem to be a legacy workaround inherited from Motorola and Zebra.

Jesus-TeamNet — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:18:30 GMT

concordo.

Re: Extreme Wing APs seem to be a legacy workaround inherited from Motorola and Zebra.

Angelo_Cargnel — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:28:04 GMT

The WiNG OS was released in 2010. At that time, Flash was state-of-the-art.
To change of the UI for each WiNG Access Points is very expensive.
But as WiNG was designed and developed for controller based environments, there is a HTML5 based UI available on the controller, called NOVA.
Please find a reference here: https://documentation.extremenetworks.com/WiNG/7.9.1.0/WiNG_7.9.1.0_GettingStartedGuide_NOVA.pdf