The initial setup is easy.

I'm not responsible for deploying ExtremeControl, so I can't say if it's difficult to deploy. Some other projects in my company may have it deployed on the cloud, but I'm unsure. I'm working on a massive project that will finish in autumn 2024. We're using ExtremeControl and other Extreme components for that. 

We have a team of two or three experts who install and maintain the solution. I don't think they spent much time on it because they have experience working with ExtremeControl from other projects. Overall, the project takes a long time to reach the production stage. It's about a year before we are ready to go into production.

We have a group that does maintenance, and the hospital has its own technicians. I don't know how many of them are doing this, but I would assume it's maybe 20 because you have to support it 24/7. 

The initial setup was complex for on-premises but straightforward for cloud. It takes five or six steps to deploy APs from scratch on the on-premises controller and takes a lot of time. It wastes one or two days of our engineers' time. We need two technical staff for the deployment.

It was an easy setup and took about an hour. You can think of it as being more of an SSI. Following setup, we put in some protocols to provide a lot of the specifics for our network. Switches, access points, controllers, firewalls, and others. The most work was to get free access to the teachers. The system can be used with other vendors like ProHT, Huawei, and D-Link. 

The installation is easy, it can take between five minutes to four hours depending on the complexity of the environment. The speed of the installation could improve for more complex environments.