Aruba has its problems too, but they try to minimize them. Do not forget that, for many years, Aruba was a wireless-only company. Their wireless needed to work for them to remain profitable. For Cisco, wireless is just another product line in a large portfolio.
The above comments are my personal opinion, not that of my employer. Bruce Osborne Senior Network Engineer Network Operations - Wireless (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lyons [mailto:ily...@rollins.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 8:25 AM Subject: Re: Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client Fails to Associate: AID Error As a result of the lack of QA, we removed all 1000 of our Cisco AP's and moved to Aruba. Since then, we have had zero problems. Cisco really needs to get their stuff together, their Wireless has not been an Enterprise level product, in my opinion. Ian -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> On Behalf Of Kenny, Eric Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 8:02 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client Fails to Associate: AID Error We were hit with the AID bug around this time last year on an 8.3 release. At the time the bug was a Sev 2 with Cisco. They provided an engineering release which we ran until the issue was finally resolved in later code. More proof that QA in large environments is lacking, to say the least. I’m with Bruce on this one, we are running Aruba 8.3.0.1 release and have used the live upgrades a few times now. The only issues we’ve seen with it are our mesh deployment, but I hear they are working on that. Client devices will roam as Joachim mentioned, but as long as you have roaming setup correctly, it’s almost always transparent to the user. ----------------------------------- Eric Kenny Network Architect Harvard University ITS ----------------------------------- > On Aug 23, 2018, at 7:33 AM, Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) > <bosbo...@liberty.edu> wrote: > > Come over to the Intelligent Wi-Fi side! :D > > We just moved to Aruba 8.2.x this summer and are impressed with the automated > RF management capabilities. We can now upgrade all or part of our wireless > network with zero downtime. > > We also are in the process from moving from 3 independent systems (campus, > remote, LPV) to a single unified system, simplifying configuration and adding > more consistency.. > > Bruce Osborne > Senior Network Engineer > Network Operations - Wireless > > (434) 592-4229 > > LIBERTY UNIVERSITY > Training Champions for Christ since 1971 > > From: Lee H Badman [mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:20 PM > Subject: Re: Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client Fails to > Associate: AID Error > > Is crazy- Cisco is up to 8.8.x on support site, but I hesitate to move from > 8.2 MR7 as it actually works. Like hesitate to move, ever. EVER. > > -Lee Badman > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> On Behalf Of Mccormick, Kevin > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 1:30 PM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client > Fails to Associate: AID Error > > New field notice was published yesterday. > > https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/702/fn70253.h > tml > > You may want to check if you are being affected. > > Following versions are affected. > > 8.0.150.0, 8.0.152.0 > 8.4.100.0 > 8.5.103.0 > > If you are running 8.0, TAC has 8.0MR5esc available. > > > Kevin McCormick > Network Administrator > University Technology - Western Illinois University > ke-mccorm...@wiu.edu | (309) 298-1335 | Morgan Hall 106b Connect with > uTech: Website | Facebook | Twitter > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/discuss. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/discuss. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.