We have been a Cisco shop for over 4 years. Not to take anything away from Aruba, but like vendor products always work well together. I am very pleased with our WLAN, both LWAPP and IOS solutions. Solid, stable, and reliable. Kevin Johnson, CCNA Network Engineer Cisco Wireless Specialist Health First NS&T 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955 Phone 321-434-5557 Cell 321-403-2542
>>> Jay Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/19/2007 10:12 AM >>> I am in the process of evaluating vendors for a campus-wide rollout of wireless. I have narrowed my choices down to Cisco and Aruba. We are planning on creating three roles which are faculty/staff, student, and guest.Each of these roles will have varying degrees of access to systems on the network. Because of manpower issues we will be broadcasting the SSID and using Novell's LDAP to authenticate to the system. We are not a Cisco shop so there is no advantage either way as far as dropping into our existing system. My question is are there any gotchas I might be missing with these two vendors? From what I have seen, both systems seem to work nearly identically. You can access the same information from each controller, and both are self-healing when an AP goes out. Are there any support issues I should be aware of? We plan on making our decision around the first of November, so I look forward to any comments this group might have. -- ********************************************************* Jay Howell Executive Director of Information Technology Chowan University Ph: 252-398-6361 ********************************************************* ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ##################################### This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ##################################### ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
