Re: OT - BYOD

Did a POC a few weeks back with both Aruba and Cisco, mostly for the
non-BYOD portion. Both vendors do have great products. I highly recommend
that you do a POC of your own by clearly listing your requirements to the
vendors first as both will give you a different solution for the same
problem. Some comments :

1) ISE is not that expensive IMHO. It's a radius server on steroids
2) If you're starting from scratch and building a BYOD solution, Aruba
seems like a worthwhile competitor
3) Aruba provides a lot of cools apps for auto-enrolement/onboarding of
personal devices
4) If you need power redundancy on the controllers, only the high end (read
expensive) Aruba controller came with dual power supplies at the time
5) I may be mistaken but I think you need the ClearConnect product to
provide you with ISE equivalent functionality
6) You would also want Airwave for WCS-ish functionality (Airwave is really
cool btw)
7) Aruba APs tend to be a bit cheaper than Cisco's
8) If you only use Flexconnect type of functionality with dot1x, Cisco's
APs can survive the loss of a controller by authenticating to the radius
server themselves

Again, do your own POC according to your environment :) I found it very
hard to get any real info before getting my hands on the actual equipment.
Aruba definitely has a marketing department to match Cisco's. Both vendors
provide a great solution.

Cheers,

Eric Lauriault

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Vishal Rane <vishal.rane_at_hotmail.co.in>wrote:

> Hello All
>
> Looking for Feedback if anyone did POC for Cisco WLC and Aruba WLC.
> What I read is device categorization is built in feature in Aruba and for
> Cisco you need to buy expensive ISE BOX + auto registration and Template
> not
> available still.
>
> Feedback will be very help.
> Preferred to stick with CISCO but seems ARUBA is way forward
>
>
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>
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