Jeff How did you achieve that discount, was it a significant bulk order? We tend to buy large amounts of switches and APs separately, if we can save a lot of money buying them together that would be nice!
Oli On 15 October 2015 at 19:15, Jeffrey D. Sessler <j...@scrippscollege.edu> wrote: > I think it's always wise to look at other vendors when you're about to > replace that amount of equipment, but unless you are unhappy, it's unlikely > that the alternative will come out less expensive i.e. hardware purchase, > plus learning/supporting another vendor. > > If you're happy, work with your incumbent vendor to see what they'll do to > keep you in the family. > > For Cisco, right now there is a deal where you can get substantial > additional discounts on wireless if it's paired with switching (which also > gets extra discounts), and these stack on top of the discount you get > normally. Let's just say that 70%-ish off is not difficult. I took > advantage of the discount last year and the cost for a 3702i was pretty > amazing. > > Jeff > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Oliver, Jeff > Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:42 AM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Multi Vendor environments in WiFi space > > All, > > This is probably an old topic, but I have not seen anything in a while on > it. > > At present we are a Cisco shop with regard to our wireless deployment, and > we are looking at changing out a substantial number (250) of our AP's (1131 > to 3702). These AP's represent about 30% of our deployment so is a > substantial investment, and as such our CIO has asked us to look at other > solutions. > > I am wondering if any of you are running multi vendor environments and if > so, what the UX is like? What are the toolsets like regarding management of > two disparate systems? > > > > Cheers, > Jeff > > --- > > Jeffrey L. Oliver > Sr. Network Analyst > Information Technology Services > The University of Lethbridge > 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 > > Tel: 403.329.5162 > Mob: 403.315.4461 > Fax: 403.382.7108 > > URI: jeff.oli...@uleth.ca > > ********** > 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/. > > -- Oliver Elliott Senior Network Specialist IT Services University of Bristol e: oliver.elli...@bristol.ac.uk t: 0117 39 (41131) ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
