Our story is very similar to Josh's. We replaced Clean Access with Safe Connect in a very very short period of time, litterally weeks before this past Fall move-in and are very happy with the product and the company. Keep in mind, Clean Access has a lot of features and can probably make a NAC solution more effective if you have the staff, the time and the control required to do those things but we just dont have that kind of control on our residential network and I dont imagine that too many higher-ed institutions do. I dont think that kind of fine-grained control is really neccessary in this environment anyway... I think Perfigo was a good product for residential neworks and Cisco did an excellent job of updating and upgrading it but it has since become a product that just requires too much time and too much control for this use. If I were managing a corporate environment, I think it would fit the bill nicely...
Jeff Hague Network Manager & TSO Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science Randolph-Macon College ________________________________ From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Baity, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CLEANACCESS] Other NAC Sean, We were also a Clean Access shop until it came to renew and discovered the “options” available from Cisco. We had deployed it when it was still Perfigo and so you know what options we had. We eventually chose to go with Impulse and their product Safe Connect. We demoed the equipment in June and purchased it 30 days later. I was responsible for the initial demo and later deployment and can state that it was as good as advertised (at least for our environment). I found their implementation team to be proficient and willing to work with us on every detail. Their product has proven to be well designed and well implemented. I also like the fact that it is a single piece of hardware that scales very well (you can run two if you want). The interface, in my most humblest of opinions, is SO MUCH better than Cisco’s! I’d be more than happy to answer any questions you have, on/off list. Just for what it’s worth, the cost was VERY comfortable for us. __________________ Josh Baity Network Analyst Black Hills State University From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hennessey, Sean Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Other NAC Hi all – Just out of curiosity – does anyone know of any other NAC products worth looking at? We are running Clean Access but looking at going a different way. There was one that a number of people had mentioned before (and I think we lost a couple of people to) that I just cannot remember the name of. We’re not really thinking of leaving but want to do some comparisons. Thanks - Sean ---- Sean Hennessey Networking and Information Security Systems Administrator The University of Portland
