Aruba's AirGroup has been announced for AirPlay functionality, but I believe it is still in alpha testing.
Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Mike King [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 8:24 PM Subject: Re: You knew it was coming...Airplay/Apple TV support for instructors. aerohive has built in a bonjour gateway. it's baked right into their o s. if you trunk all of your wireless vlans to it you can do selective filtering and redistribution. since it's built into the o s you can get it with any of their base units, just turn off the wireless interface On Jul 4, 2012 2:49 PM, "Frank Bulk" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ok, I'm confused. If you turn the AP's radios off, how do the wireless clients participate in Airplay? Frank -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Colleen Szymanik Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 6:16 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] You knew it was coming...Airplay/Apple TV support for instructors. We are up against the same issues. I've been playing around with Aerohive APs to get the small "one off" solutions for a few classrooms around campus. We decided to use 2 APs per classroom and turn off the radios. One AP lives on the wired segment to propagate the AppleTV to the wireless vlan where the other AP lives (radios are turned off). So, basically we just use the bonjour gateway functionality. We are still figuring out scalability issues, but for a few situations, this might get us by for a little while. We are also on the list to test AirGroup from Aruba as soon as we can get our hands on it. On Jul 3, 2012, at 10:07 PM, "James Andrewartha" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On 04/07/12 05:48, Kellogg, Brian D. wrote: >> I did and it was less productive than spitting into the wind. They really don't care and have the attitude that the consumer demand will dictate others find solutions to their protocol deficiencies. At least that was my impression. It still befuddles me you just can't plug in a FQDN or IP address for Airplay to connect to. > > What's worse is when you start having tens or hundreds of these devices > on the network - it'd be very easy to fat-finger and Airplay to the > wrong one. Thinking about wide-area DNS-SD, you could perhaps use DHCP > option 82 to publish subdomains for DNS-SD that only publishes Apple TVs > in the building of that AP or switch. I've no idea how you'd manage that > sort of mapping though, doing it manually is out of the question, is > there any software to manage that sort of thing? > > Thanks, > > -- > James Andrewartha > Network & Projects Engineer > Christ Church Grammar School > Claremont, Western Australia > Ph. (08) 9442 1757 > Mob. 0424 160 877 > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
