Hey Julian, Thanks for the reply. What was the reason you kept Bradford once you decided to deploy ClearPass? Does ClearPass not work well for the wired network?
-Brian -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 5:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba and Bradford On Tue Jul 19 2016 16:09:34 CDT, Brian Helman <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are an Aruba AND Bradford shop, what was you reason for using Bradford > vs Clearpass? Our primary interest in NAC is onboarding and guest networks > (wired and wireless). We are currently a Bradford shop. Back when we were making our initial NAC decision to replace an old open source system for residence hall wired ports, it came down to Avenda vs. Bradford. At the time, Avenda (dangit autocorrect keeps trying to change that to Agenda!) was pretty much brand new, and although we preferred the overall architecture, the end user experience was pretty raw. So we ended up going with Bradford. Later on after Aruba bought Avenda and Amigopod and lumped all that together into ClearPass, we bought into that to replace our old Steel Belted RADIUS servers for authentication purposes and later on used the Amigopod functionality to service our guest wireless network captive portal (we had liked Amigopod from the beginning but gave Bradford a shot at that function first since we already owned that, and Amigopod was a little pricey). Now we use Bradford for device registration on the wired ports in the residence halls and public areas of the library. We also use it to implement quarantine functionality on all wired ports across the institution. Works fine for these purposes. ClearPass is used for central RADIUS authentication for wireless and various other services, guest registration, and quarantining for wireless. Also works fine for those purposes. -- Julian Y. Koh Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern Information Technology 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 Evanston, IL 60208 +1-847-467-5780 Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** 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/.
