Cisco doesn't require you to use their switches, but there are advantages if you do. They aren't so fantastic that you'd replace what you have, but if you do happen to have Cisco, items like CDP or their once pre-standard POE+ are value-add. Cisco will no doubt start shipping AP's with the new multigigabit proposed standard, and they'll also be shipping new switches with support. If you're in a refresh-cycle, putting the two together may get you to a place you could otherwise not reach with a multi-vendor solution. Jeff
>>> On Monday, March 02, 2015 at 1:37 PM, in message >>> <CAMFTxdQm1TrGSWJNhaYDNTtCaoVCuCza=jza2zuw7crfbff...@mail.gmail.com>, >>> Hunter Fuller <hf0...@uah.edu> wrote: Well, I don't know why Cisco is different, but they seem to be; Cisco wireless gear doesn't care what switch it runs on, as far as I'm aware, as long as it can get its dot3af power from it. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Turner, Ryan H <rhtur...@email.unc.edu> wrote: > Well, let's be fair... Every wireless vendor that runs a switching line is > going to try to get you to run their switches. Why would Cisco be any > different than HP. -- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBRH M-9B +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure I am part of the UAH Safe Zone LGBTQIA support network: http://www.uah.edu/student-affairs/safe-zone ********** 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/.
