Airplay support is a work in progress and there is no location control. I don't know if the RFC will bear fruit, but I think individual vendors will try to come up with their own solutions to gain a competitive advantage. Aruba has announced some location-based advertisement thing but it is vaporware at this point I think. For those who want building based or other network segregation models anyway that may be fine, but for those that don't re-architecting a network for airplay zone control isn't very attractive.
In our case there aren't that many AppleTVs on campus, and we aren't officially supporting it anyway, so it isn't an issue now. People understand that it is experimental but appreciate that it works nonetheless. The fact that it is usable and reliable is a great thing, and we'll look forward to see what developments for zoning come down the pike. On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Jason Cook <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi,**** > > > We have Cisco wireless and are currently dev’ing up the bonjour gateway > service release in 7.4. I know other vendors have similar workaround > features and am interested see how people have gone with it, keen to hear > from users of other vendors as well. **** > > ** ** > > So far it all seems to work as advertised, was pretty easy setup with good > control over what services you advertise. However I find there to be a lack > of location control, and would like to know if anyone has implemented ways > to control the location where the advertisements go.**** > > ** ** > > For something like this we’d like to restrict the advertisements to > location by building/level/room/AP, it will help it scale better for users > devices when scrolling through the list of available devices to connect to > like an Apple TV. Users in building 1 don’t need to see an Apple TV in a > meeting room in building 2. Using separate SSID’s is also not really a > scalable solution… though does work of course with a dedicated subnet and > multicast enabled. **** > > ** ** > > We currently don’t have building based networks, which would be one way to > control advertisements. This is something we are planning, but are a while > off yet, also the ability to go more granular than just buildings would be > useful. **** > > ** ** > > I’ve started a conversation with our local Cisco office, but am interested > see what others may have done or believe could be useful for this.**** > > > Regards**** > > > Jason**** > > ** ** > > --**** > > Jason Cook**** > > Technology Services**** > > The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005**** > > Ph : +61 8 8313 4800**** > > e-mail: [email protected]**** > > ** ** > > CRICOS Provider Number 00123M**** > > -----------------------------------------------------------**** > > This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains > information which may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the > intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the > contents of this email. If this email has been sent to you in error, please > notify the sender by reply email and delete this email and any copies or > links to this email completely and immediately from your system. No > representation is made that this email is free of viruses. Virus scanning > is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient.**** > > ** ** > ********** 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/.
