We evaluated many video sharing solutions including: * AppleTV with AirParrot's Ditto (for Windows systems) * WePresent * Crestron AirMedia * Wolfvision Cynap * AirServer
Only AppleTV and Airserver are less than $200. The other solutions were significantly more expensive. We ran a demonstration with campus stakeholders, including department chairs and professors, to show the experience on each solution. The results were clear and unambiguous. AppleTV paired with Ditto was far superior to the other solutions in ease of use, video framerate, video resolution, video artifacts, video/audio synchronization, and obviously: price. The professors stated that the other solutions were essentially unusable for anything besides basic slideshows. Also, keep in mind that when an iOS device tries to play a video, it attempts a hand-off to the "AppleTV" to play the content, and at the time of our testing, none of the other solutions accept the handoff, causing the iOS device to crash. This breaks Netflix, Youtube, and device-resident videos, applications that many professors need for their class material. We initially set up our network for network-based discovery of the AppleTVs. This was a management nightmare, however, since we needed to micromanage the access points on which an AppleTV's mDNS signals were forwarded on. We have resorted to Bluetooth based discovery, and this has been successful in our environments. We have around 100 AppleTVs installed in this way around our campus, and we are receiving rave reviews from our stakeholders about the solution. -- Jason Trinklein Wireless Engineering Manager College of Charleston 81 St. Philip Street | Office 311D | Charleston, SC 29403 [email protected] | (843) 300–8009 On 6/20/18, 10:27 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Joseph Bernard" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Does anyone have success with a device that is $200 or less that works with Apple devices to share video and works with an enterprise wifi network (802.1x/PEAP)? Thanks, Joseph Bernard ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fdiscuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca56f2a4886c84b8ce4c808d5d6b9e691%7Ce285d438dbba4a4c941c593ba422deac%7C0%7C1%7C636651016277180264&sdata=jWm%2B6xG0cBn6A0MCJxy2DpZXp7kWCdzIcgt%2B7CYdPtM%3D&reserved=0. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
