Jeff, I'm semi-seriously picking a fight over this statement. I get what you mean about cutting edge. They are choosing the bleeding edge. But how can you reconcile that with if you want to the new access point we're selling, you have to run X? IE, Cisco still recommends on it's website 8.3.133.0 as the release you should run, but the 1815w (Which went First Customer Ship on December 5th, 2016) REQUIRES 8.5.x. Is it bleeding edge, when the product has been out for over 1 year?
We all know Cisco (and other vendors) give these products the shortest shelf life they can reasonable get away with. And Cisco usually prices new models at the same price as the old model (usually), so why would you buy the 3700 series, when the 3800 is out, and we all know the EOS for the 3700 will probably hit fairly soon. So buying old AP's is not helping you in the long run. (I used the 3800 cause I know that model, I have no idea what the 1815w is targeted to replace) Mike On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Jeffrey D. Sessler <[email protected] > wrote: > Discussions like this just reinforce the notion that no one-customer is > the same as another. Folks like myself have been rock solid where others > seem to excite every little bug. There are also customers who want to push > the cutting edge with code version and feature-set, but are not > well-resourced to support it and/or have the expectation that it should be > as stable as general deployment code. > > > > The important part is to make sure you have a great relationship with your > local wireless SE’s as well as the Wireless BU. I can’t say enough good > things about the folks in the BU, especially the engineering teams, who > I’ve interfaced with over the years. > > > > Jeff > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
