Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-04 Thread Jon Auer
They target the enterprise market. Way easier to work with than Cisco's enterprise WiFi system IMO. My apartment is a RF mess in 2.4Ghz. I've been cycling through WiFi vendors every quarter or two for the past couple of years to see how their products behave between my work, my wife's streaming

Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Mike Hammett
Subject: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? I see HP bought them. Never heard of them. I would have thought that if they were any good this crowd would have been talking about this at some time or other.

Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Bill Prince
We know the (former?) CEO and at least one of their engineers. AFAIK, they sell an enterprise WiFi management system. Haven't kept track of them other than that. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/2/2015 8:55 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: I see HP bought them. Never heard of them. I would have

[AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Chuck McCown
I see HP bought them. Never heard of them. I would have thought that if they were any good this crowd would have been talking about this at some time or other.

Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Patrick Leary
Chuck, Aruba was one of the original switched Wi-Fi vendors, like Airespace that Cisco bought around 2005. Aruba now is part of HP, who had been really late in the game (even later than Juniper) in broadening its in-house expertise to include Wi-Fi. Patrick On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Chuck

Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Rory Conaway
Hammett Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 9:57 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? Their fans get hard ons over them. Xirrus, Ruckus, UniFi. That's all you really need. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png

Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Chuck McCown
Remember that R2D2 barrel looking thing that Motorola was trying to launch for mobile mesh? What a bunch of hype. Did anyone ever succeed in good mobile mesh? From: Rory Conaway Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:07 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? Aruba had the best

Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks?

2015-03-02 Thread Rory Conaway
dropping the previous connection. Rocket M2’s with omni’s work pretty well. rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 10:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? Remember that R2D2 barrel looking thing that Motorola