RE: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-03-04 Thread Rob Harris
This was a very active thread that really got a lot of attention. To the OP and main contributors, how is everything now? Anyone willing to drop an update? (We're still happy with our 315s, we're running 8.5.0.5 and it's basically stable. Any issues we encountered they were very quick to help us

Re: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-10 Thread Jason Healy
On Jan 10, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Rob Harris wrote: > > What flavor of AP are you running? What are you doing for POE? All 300-series (303, 303H, 305, 325). We're all-Juniper EX on switching, so in older buildings it's 3200/4200 (802.3af PoE) and in new construction it's 3400 (802.3at). Jason ***

RE: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-10 Thread Rob Harris
I've been an Aruba customer for a long time now and while I'm still happy, I see what you're saying. In my opinion, a lot of issues started here; https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Wireless-Access/Updates-to-Aruba-Release-Naming-Replacing-ED-and-GA/td-p/279651 When they changed how the soft

Re: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-10 Thread Jason Healy
I glanced away from my email and suddenly there are 50+ messages in this thread! Late to the party but... We're an Aruba shop now, having just gone through a vendor cage match last year for a full system replacement and installing over the summer. While there have been some frustrations on th

RE: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-09 Thread Turner, Ryan H
>From my standpoint, it really isn't about having bugs. They will all have >them. Its how the vendor handles the request when it comes in. Extreme is a very good example of this. While we have bugs, I know I can escalate it all the way to the C level of executives if I don't think an issue is

Re: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-09 Thread Jeffrey D. Sessler
Our consortium had both Cisco and Aruba, and about 12-18 months ago the Aruba folks tossed in the towel and went Cisco. Various unresolvable problems with Aruba AP’s, including one that required a weekly reboot of a particular model. As Lee mentions, the grass isn’t always greener, so expect tha