We have ~1400 Aerohive APs and have been a customer since early 2009. I'm happy to talk to folks about our experience, and would love to talk to other large .edu deployments. Email and we can setup a time.
Norman Elton College of William & Mary [email protected] / 757-221-7790 On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:09 PM, LaMarr Baucom <[email protected]> wrote: > I just purchased 205 Aerohive APs, for two of our dorms and our on Campus > Apartments. I am purchasing another 40, for another dorm in about a month, > and hopefully an additional 150 before June for 5 more of our dorms. At the > beginning of the fiscal year, I would like to replace the remaining APs in > our dorms. > > I have been looking at Aerohive for about two years now and have talked in > depth with 3 Higher Ed's and many others from various sects that are very > pleased. We were a complete Cisco shop up until this point, but I plan on > splitting that and keeping our Campus side on Cisco and using the non EOL > APs and WiSM2 from the dorms on the Campus side. The only thing that has > kept me from switching sooner is having to support two wireless systems, but > we had some funding so it made since. > > Various reasons played apart in making the switch. > > 1) Cisco licensing (there are no extra licensing costs with Aerohive). For > example Layer 7 visibility is available out of the box. You don't run into > the Cisco licensing problems where you have to purchase licenses for the WLC > and PI, as well as having to purchase the AVC, Clean Air, MSE, ISE, extra PI > licenses. > 2) Cisco's 7.4x code has been a nightmare for us. PI hasn't been much better > 3) The timing was right with replacing the remaining EOL APs in the dorms, > and we also need to replace some on the Campus side so we will just use the > newer APs from the dorms on the Campus side, as we deploy more Aerohive > gear. > > Note: The per AP costs are about the same so this was not a factor in our > decision. > > If I had one complaint about the Aerohive stuff (if you would call this a > complaint) it would be that you can do so much with the system, that it > makes doing minor changes a little more difficult than in the Cisco world. > > I do have contact info for a University that has been an Aerohive customer > for over 5 years and has over 1000 APs. He told me he doesn't mind me giving > out his contact info as a reference. Email me directly if you would like his > info (he is not a member of this listserv). > > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > LaMarr Baucom > Wireless Network Engineer > Murray State University > (270) 809-2299 > [email protected] > > MSU Information Systems staff will never ask for your password or other > confidential information via email. > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Glassman, Stephen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Please keep this public or at least leave your contact info if you run >> Aerohive.... >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steve >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Eklund >> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 7:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aerohive >> >> If any of you have a large installation of Aerohive I'd like to talk with >> you privately about your experiences. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Daniel Eklund >> Network Planning Manager >> ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers University of Michigan >> 734.763.6389 >> >> ********** >> 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/.
