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Todd Smith Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam T Ferrero Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 14:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Third Party 10Gbs optics with Aruba Controllers We are Aruba and happen to have Aruba direct 10G optics sort of unintentionally. We've been using Approved Optics parts for Avaya, Palo Alto, Intel, and Check Point for a couple years. Our savings is multiple six figures at this point. No one ever complains about it and we are transparent about the fact that we use them. Should an optic come into question we will do the usual swap/clean optics, fiber jumpers, etc. to identify root cause. It was ruled against the law (Manguson-Moss Act of 1975) for the manufacturers to require you to purchase their optics. Juniper is the only one that has very reasonable pricing for optics so we do purchase them directly. But, we've otherwise been completely thrilled with our very affordable, lifetime warrantied optics. When I did the research I was amazed at the number of Fortune 500s and the social media giants that figured this out long ago. Do your homework and I'd expect you'll find it's well worth the effort. Adam Ferrero From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Helman Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:01 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Third Party 10Gbs optics with Aruba Controllers Over on the NETMAN list we have lots of discussions about 3rd party optics. I'm in the process of pricing comparative solutions right now to our existing wireless. FOR EXISTING ARUBA CUSTOMERS .. do you use 3rd party optics on your controllers? If so, have you ever had support issues from Aruba? Feel free to ping me directly. Vendors, this is not a sales opportunity, but if you can answer the questions from a usage/technical viewpoint, that would be great. Thanks! -Brian ____________________________________ Brian Helman, M.Ed<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__M.Ed&d=CwQFAg&c=2GaipCMI-4CXTl0y2l8grQS3faC7QKiDQZYpyUtD00M&r=uvxIRDMxwssmr2VjVNRe6I_MeNT0SmtowN9dpqcMAFc&m=4XwZanzBtn2bZMh40eeJlnaBcWYG-mHKpcBZWFMVPVw&s=WAn78A30vdaQXTcrkEQeTxOWddTG7bDt3Hwv-bBQhl8&e=> | Director, ITS/Networking Services | *: 978.542.7272 Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970 GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.educause.edu_groups_&d=CwMFAg&c=2GaipCMI-4CXTl0y2l8grQS3faC7QKiDQZYpyUtD00M&r=uvxIRDMxwssmr2VjVNRe6I_MeNT0SmtowN9dpqcMAFc&m=4XwZanzBtn2bZMh40eeJlnaBcWYG-mHKpcBZWFMVPVw&s=INLR-35MoCN3K_MjRXTer9SVGviwGObDgaRykiPtNFg&e=>. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.educause.edu_groups_&d=CwMFAg&c=2GaipCMI-4CXTl0y2l8grQS3faC7QKiDQZYpyUtD00M&r=uvxIRDMxwssmr2VjVNRe6I_MeNT0SmtowN9dpqcMAFc&m=4XwZanzBtn2bZMh40eeJlnaBcWYG-mHKpcBZWFMVPVw&s=INLR-35MoCN3K_MjRXTer9SVGviwGObDgaRykiPtNFg&e=>. ====================================================================== CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If this e-mail contains protected health information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, except as permitted by law. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
