I think there is a point that is being missed here. It appears that Apple may have *purposely* designed these devices & protocols for the consumer environment, not for the enterprise.
Since Apple TV supports WPA2-Personal, it would likely have not been much more effort to support WPA2-Enterprise. Perhaps enterprise was not their target market. If they supported WPA2-Enterprise they would also need robust management tools for Apple TV since WPA2-Enterprise is not used in the consumer market. Perhaps Apple is intentionally ignoring the enterprise market segment. If that is the case, the petition may not have much effect. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Andy Voelker [mailto:avoel...@email.wcu.edu] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Apple Petition That confuses me as well. It is obviously built in to many other iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPad) and has been for some time. Why the change? I suspect it just due to the GUI difference. If so, that’s easily fixable. -- Andy Voelker Manager of Student Computing in the Technology Commons WCU Staff Senator Western Carolina University Check the status of your IT requests at any time at http://help.wcu.edu/ ! From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]> On Behalf Of Voll, Toivo Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 1:28 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition Also, for me, the lack of support for WPA2-Enterprise is a head-scratcher. If they go through the trouble of supporting the rest of the encryption schemes, and obviously support it on a bunch of their other products, why randomly leave it out of some products? I’d prioritize that a bit more, personally. -- Toivo Voll Network Engineer Information Technology Communications University of South Florida
