From: john matijevic (john.matijevic@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 17:04:17 ART
Hello Scott and Tony,
Thanks again for your feedback, unfortunatly there is no Cisco gear
currently where I work, in fact all of my smartnets and benefits from
previous companies have been taken away :(. From what I have been reading
with Cisco, you can setup AAA and authentication using PEAP as the EAP
authentication mode via RADIUS, as a fallback option if the Radius server is
unavailable you can use local EAP authentication. With the Bluesocket, the
appliance itself has more security firewall features than from the Cisco
appliance, at lease what I saw from the demonstation on the controllers.
Also there isn't a debug utility on the WAP on Cisco, so the security
features weren't as robust as the Bluesocket from what I could see. But on
the other hand from a managibility perspective the Cisco product seemed to
have better manageability. Right now in our environment we have everything
statically mapped via mac addresses and there is no directory based
authentication. Also manageablity on Cisco from the WCS was through a GUI,
so looks like the command line interface didnt have much features for the
Cisco solution.
Thanks again for your input.
John
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com>wrote:
> How many APs? N?
>
> The Cisco solution is very easy to deploy and run and has some nice
> add-ons.
> The WCS software is pretty nice.
>
> The controller software is very solid. 4.2 or 5 will treat you right.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> john
> matijevic
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: wireless solution
>
> Hello Team,
> I am looking at either a Cisco wireless solution or a Bluesocket Wiress
> Solution. If anyone has any experience with the two that can help provide
> me
> some feedback.
> In terms of Support, ease of deployment, managability. Also we dont have
> any
> Cisco gear for switches, and we are primarily Unix shop not windows.
> If you have any issues with either one either product functionality, the
> product itself, or support issues when you call in, etc, looking for
> feedback.
> Thanks again for your feedback.
> John
>
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