Yes, I know I'm a starry eyed dreamer, but if we don't talk about this it may never happen. I, for one, am not looking forward to the day when we have to somehow transition from 12,000 access points of one vendor to 12,000 from another and make the transition as seamless as possible.
-- Daniel Eklund Network Planning Manager ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers University of Michigan 734.763.6389 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Jeffrey Sessler <j...@scrippscollege.edu>wrote: > It is highly unlikely that this will ever come to pass. Sure, you may > get to the point where you could get very basic AP functionality > cross-vendor, but there are so many vendor-specific custom features > requiring support in both the AP and controller e.g. Cisco's clean air, > that I doubt vendor A will spend time to reverse-engineer and support > vendor B's technology. There is simply no money to be made from doing so > and it's unlikely to result in a better customer experience. > > > Jeff > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
