We have experience with both the Bluesocket and Reefedge systems. While both of them are similar in functionality, the performance thus far has been extremely disappointing for the Reefedge system. I'm not sure how you are planning on using these systems, but we we are only using the wireless gateway to authenticate against our existing RADIUS/Kerberos authentication services. The wireless gateway acts as a DHCP passthrough only, and no VPN or DHCP services are terminated on the either an edge device or a wireless gateway. All users are put into the same role. While using the Reefedge system, we have had repeated failures in the field, mostly all seem to be a result of load related issues. We did work very closely with the vendor to address these issues, but they still were not able to fix their system. I have heard that the system is much better if being used in a NAT mode (we have been using transparent). So, we have now moved on to using primarily Bluesocket only and have not had the load issues so far. Hope this helps.
Colleen Szymanik ---------------------------- University of Pennsylvania Network Engineer
Scott Weeks wrote:
Hello Everyone,
It appears that Bluesocket and Reefedge do the same thing. Has anyone done a comparison/contrast of the two systems?
Thanks, scott
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