"Anyway, FWIW, I am sure Aruba's support for Cisco wireless is much better than Cisco's support for Aruba wireless."
Lee gives this two big fat thumbs' up. :) ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services) <bosbo...@liberty.edu> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 7:55 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Airwave Support for Cisco Devices Mike Tennefoss is a good contact. Although I cannot comment on Aruba's support for Cisco wireless, I know that Airwave is going through some major pains to add back functionality lost when rearchitecting the product to eliminate Adobe Flash dependencies. Anyway, FWIW, I am sure Aruba's support for Cisco wireless is much better than Cisco's support for Aruba wireless. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer - Wireless Team IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 -----Original Message----- From: Watters, John [mailto:john.watt...@ua.edu] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 8:33 PM Subject: Airwave Support for Cisco Devices Per an email from the Aruba "VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS" late Friday afternoon, Aruba is planning to support the Cisco 2700 APs: "There's misinformation flowing on the Listserv. Aruba is focused on staying up-to-date with Cisco devices, and we plan to support 2700s on or before the end of this calendar year. " In addition, I was given contact information to get in touch with the Airwave Product Manger to talk about their support of the Cisco product line. While I have her attention I will make a plea for expanding the coverage of the Cisco WLCs to include many more of the available, and commonly used, controller options that are not currently settable (or monitored) by the AirWave product. We have three 2,500-device licenses for this product. I would certainly hate to have to abandon them due to lack of timely support for our constant growing and changing Cisco wireless infrastructure. We do not utilize the AirAirWave product to mange any of our Cisco switch gear. We started using the Airwave product before Aruba purchased them. Since that purchase the support for Cisco products has gradually decreased. I can understand that Aruba needs to put more effort into supporting their own product line than they do for their infrastructure competitors. However, they should still be able to properly support the Cisco product line. I still view the AirWave product as a better reporting tool others I have seen. And, a more intuitive interface too. I certainly hope I still feel this way in a year or two. I will pass anything that I find out that is particularly interesting regarding support for Cisco equipment along to the group. <mailto:mtennef...@arubanetworks.com> ========================== -jcw ********** 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/.
