The Omada Controller is software that controls all Omada devices, allowing for a single place to configure them all. Omada is a software-defined networking ecosystem of routers, switches, and wireless access points. If you want to compare the specs of individual components, refer to my Omada Comparison Charts. This overview focuses on Omada as a whole. In future posts I've cover Omada hardware, software, and performance in more detail. I'm still in the process of learning and testing, but I’ve spent enough time with all three to understand them, and what each is best used for. TP-Link provided me some Omada equipment, so it's time to discuss how the three compare. Due to the similar components and use cases, Omada draws a lot of comparisons to equipment I've covered before: Aruba’s Instant On and Ubiquiti’s UniFi. Omada is TP-Link’s ecosystem of routers, switches, and wireless access points, aimed at prosumers and small businesses. Of all the product lines TP-Link make, the most interesting to me is Omada.

TP-Link makes a lot of other things, including a variety of other network and smart home equipment. In the US, they’re mostly known for their low-cost switches, Archer line of all-in-one Wi-Fi routers and Deco mesh equipment. They’re a massive company, with a dizzying variety of products available globally. Since then, TP-Link has become the world’s #1 manufacturer of consumer Wi-Fi and networking equipment. CHR can even be used for BGP peering, RIP route distribution and as an OSPF node in network.TP-Link was founded in 1996 by two brothers, Zhao Jianjun and Zhao Jiaxing, to produce and market a network card they had developed.

CHR supports IPsec, PPTP, SSTP, L2TP, EoIP, IPIP, OpenVPN, GRE, 6to4 and VPLS/MPLS tunnels.

The Dude server for monitoring network infrastructure, CAPsMAN server for rapid deployment of wireless networks.

Cloud hosted router license