We deployed Aerohive a year and a half ago and currently have 200+ AP's. We have had a very positive experience with Aerohive and would be more than willing to discuss our implementation.
Harry Zahlis Network Coordinator Fresno City College -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Elton Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 7:36 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aerohive We have ~1400 Aerohive APs and have been a customer since early 2009. I'm happy to talk to folks about our experience, and would love to talk to other large .edu deployments. Email and we can setup a time. Norman Elton College of William & Mary wne...@wm.edu / 757-221-7790 On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:09 PM, LaMarr Baucom <gbau...@murraystate.edu> wrote: > I just purchased 205 Aerohive APs, for two of our dorms and our on > Campus Apartments. I am purchasing another 40, for another dorm in > about a month, and hopefully an additional 150 before June for 5 more > of our dorms. At the beginning of the fiscal year, I would like to > replace the remaining APs in our dorms. > > I have been looking at Aerohive for about two years now and have > talked in depth with 3 Higher Ed's and many others from various sects > that are very pleased. We were a complete Cisco shop up until this > point, but I plan on splitting that and keeping our Campus side on > Cisco and using the non EOL APs and WiSM2 from the dorms on the Campus > side. The only thing that has kept me from switching sooner is having > to support two wireless systems, but we had some funding so it made since. > > Various reasons played apart in making the switch. > > 1) Cisco licensing (there are no extra licensing costs with Aerohive). > For example Layer 7 visibility is available out of the box. You don't > run into the Cisco licensing problems where you have to purchase > licenses for the WLC and PI, as well as having to purchase the AVC, > Clean Air, MSE, ISE, extra PI licenses. > 2) Cisco's 7.4x code has been a nightmare for us. PI hasn't been much > better > 3) The timing was right with replacing the remaining EOL APs in the > dorms, and we also need to replace some on the Campus side so we will > just use the newer APs from the dorms on the Campus side, as we deploy > more Aerohive gear. > > Note: The per AP costs are about the same so this was not a factor in > our decision. > > If I had one complaint about the Aerohive stuff (if you would call > this a > complaint) it would be that you can do so much with the system, that > it makes doing minor changes a little more difficult than in the Cisco world. > > I do have contact info for a University that has been an Aerohive > customer for over 5 years and has over 1000 APs. He told me he doesn't > mind me giving out his contact info as a reference. Email me directly > if you would like his info (he is not a member of this listserv). > > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > LaMarr Baucom > Wireless Network Engineer > Murray State University > (270) 809-2299 > lamarr.bau...@murraystate.edu > > MSU Information Systems staff will never ask for your password or > other confidential information via email. > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Glassman, Stephen > <sglass...@choate.edu> > wrote: >> >> Please keep this public or at least leave your contact info if you >> run Aerohive.... >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steve >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv >> [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel >> Eklund >> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 7:27 PM >> To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU >> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aerohive >> >> If any of you have a large installation of Aerohive I'd like to talk >> with you privately about your experiences. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Daniel Eklund >> Network Planning Manager >> ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers University of Michigan >> 734.763.6389 >> >> ********** >> 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/. ********** 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/.
