On 02/26/2015 02:23 PM, Thomas Carter wrote:
I kept telling our Dell reps that Dell needs to buy into wireless and grab
Aerohive or Ruckus. They would just mention the Aruba deal; we’ll see what
happens with that.
I do think this can be good for Aruba. I see it as this – Cisco is a company
that does $50B revenue annually and spends $6B in R&D. I know that’s not all
wireless, but Aruba has $725M annual revenue with $170M R&D. They need the
financial backing to stay in second and maybe close the gap on Cisco. If
integrated well, HP could have a compelling package with ProCurve and Aruba
all managed under AirWave with some magic SDN sprinkled in there somewhere.
But Aruba already has their own package with their MAS switches!
My biggest fear is that HP is buying Aruba the wireless company, not Aruba the
client access company. This would lead them to keeping the APs and
controllers, while putting all of the rest of the goodies that let us to
selecting them (Clearpass, Airwave's cross vendor capabilities, their
switches) in jeopardy of either being tossed outright or left hanging around
atrophying.
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