James, You said, Sure, I wish you could drop Apple TVs into a directory like printers (though AirPrint indicates that's going away too) and just choose from a list.
I believe Aruba Networks' AirGroup feature can do exactly what you want, letting users choose from devices they are close to. You ca nalso limit what users have access to devices, so Students may not be able to display on classroom monitors, for example. See http://www.arubanetworks.com/pdf/technology/TB_AirGroupWLANServices.pdf for more information. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer - Wireless Team IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 -----Original Message----- From: James Andrewartha [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:24 PM Subject: Re: Apple TV display mirroring spectrum use in HD wifi Hi Lee, On 16/01/14 12:07, Lee H Badman wrote: > Not sure what you're looking at, but AppleTV has nothing to do with Mersive. > I'm not trying to sell their stuff, just quite fond of it after the > frustrations of what the network needs to have done to it (bigger networks > are worse) for AppleTV. I was looking at the Solstice datasheet [1] which seems to indicate it doesn't do AirPlay on its own. > I see TCO of AppleTV as $99 (for AppleTV) + lots of hours dorking with the > network + lots of support issues when it becomes a service so relied on that > it simply can't tolerate almost-guaranteed disruption/unpredictability + time > spent trying to accommodate non-Apple devices = AppleTV actually costs > hundreds (or thousands) of dollars and leaves you with a network you'd > probably prefer not to have, and a fragmented "what device can do what" > environment for diplay mirroring. Absolutely, you have to determine whether it's worth it, for Apple TVs or Solstice. I'm just trying to determine feature compatibility - from what I can tell, the Solstice app [1] can only play media files or view webpages, it's not true iOS display mirroring and so doesn't solve the "what device can do what" environment. Perhaps that's all your classes need, but not being able to mirror other iOS apps makes it a non-starter for our requirements. > I like the Mersive paradigm as an alternative- it asks nothing of the > network. Although I'd still like to see Apple fix their own limitations. Sure, I wish you could drop Apple TVs into a directory like printers (though AirPrint indicates that's going away too) and just choose from a list. Actually, you can with the latest MDM stuff [3], but then you're having to push configuration to the device. Bonjour even supports wide-area DNS-SD, just the Apple TV doesn't for what appears to be pandering to big content. [1] http://www.mersive.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Solstice-data-sheet.pdf [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/solstice-client/id604298374?mt=8 [3] http://help.apple.com/profilemanager/mac/3.0/#apd621BA9DF-4301-4D76-8A90-84E05E343FFA -- 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/.
