Aruba's AirGroup is not vaporware, but is currently only available as a special technology release. The feature is scheduled to be released in a GA release later this year.
Aruba forked their code so they could develop this feature without impacting their main GA releases. They then merge the tested changes back into the GA release. Aruba followed a similar process when they developed their current Remote AP technology. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 Liberty University | Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Mark Duling [mailto:mark.dul...@biola.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Controlling Bonjour Zones Airplay support is a work in progress and there is no location control. I don't know if the RFC will bear fruit, but I think individual vendors will try to come up with their own solutions to gain a competitive advantage. Aruba has announced some location-based advertisement thing but it is vaporware at this point I think. For those who want building based or other network segregation models anyway that may be fine, but for those that don't re-architecting a network for airplay zone control isn't very attractive. In our case there aren't that many AppleTVs on campus, and we aren't officially supporting it anyway, so it isn't an issue now. People understand that it is experimental but appreciate that it works nonetheless. The fact that it is usable and reliable is a great thing, and we'll look forward to see what developments for zoning come down the pike. On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Jason Cook <jason.c...@adelaide.edu.au<mailto:jason.c...@adelaide.edu.au>> wrote: Hi, We have Cisco wireless and are currently dev'ing up the bonjour gateway service release in 7.4. I know other vendors have similar workaround features and am interested see how people have gone with it, keen to hear from users of other vendors as well. So far it all seems to work as advertised, was pretty easy setup with good control over what services you advertise. However I find there to be a lack of location control, and would like to know if anyone has implemented ways to control the location where the advertisements go. For something like this we'd like to restrict the advertisements to location by building/level/room/AP, it will help it scale better for users devices when scrolling through the list of available devices to connect to like an Apple TV. Users in building 1 don't need to see an Apple TV in a meeting room in building 2. Using separate SSID's is also not really a scalable solution... though does work of course with a dedicated subnet and multicast enabled. We currently don't have building based networks, which would be one way to control advertisements. This is something we are planning, but are a while off yet, also the ability to go more granular than just buildings would be useful. I've started a conversation with our local Cisco office, but am interested see what others may have done or believe could be useful for this. Regards Jason -- Jason Cook Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800<tel:%2B61%208%208313%204800> e-mail: jason.c...@adelaide.edu.au<mailto:jason.c...@adelaide.edu.au> CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the contents of this email. If this email has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by reply email and delete this email and any copies or links to this email completely and immediately from your system. No representation is made that this email is free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
