Hi, This is in no way a sales pitch, just want to share a few thoughts from Kevin Koster, Chief Architect and Founder of Cloudpath, who is still at Ruckus, and LB said this would be OK.
Thank you, Rich Nedwich Dir of Product Marketing, Education Ruckus ==== Kevin K. ===== "To address the ‘open vs secure’ question, I would suggest that this topic be a roundtable at EDUCAUSE annual. This discussion should really start with a reevaluation of the value prop of student/guest Wi-Fi to the university’s mission. If the value prop is no greater than coffee shop Wi-Fi, it may be time to think of the network as a smart city-type deployment, which may possibly benefit from inviting something like LinkNYC onto campus to serve the students’ & guests’ Wi-Fi needs. If the value prop is greater, the HEDU community should probably come together to ensure the industry moves in a manner that benefits HEDU (similar to service provider’s defining Passpoint). To clear up the confusion on EOL of the Wizard: 1. “XpressConnect Wizard” is moving toward end-of-support on December 30, 2019. This is the client-side executables managed via xpc.cloudpath.net. The migration path for wizard customers is to move to Cloudpath ES. 2. “Cloudpath ES” is the path forward for all Cloudpath functionality, and currently on ver 5.1. It contains the wizard’s client functionality as well as server-side functionality (like reporting, mac reg, CA, etc). It is managed either in your own VM or via onboard*.cloudpath.net. Most customers are currently on Cloudpath ES, but if you have questions, please contact Trish (sa...@cloudpath.net). ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
