On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Matt Simmons wrote:
Apologies for not recognizing your name. Of course none of that was new to you. But of course, you also know about the enterprise wifi solutions with tunneling and handoff, so I'm not sure what we're even discussing anymore :-)
No problem, I deliberatly didn't push out that link right away, but I figured that since the question of what I know came up, I'd point it out :-)
I actually am not very familiar with the enterprise solutions, and I've been learning during this discussion.
I tend to be the "build" instead of "buy" type. I _like_ having all the pieces be something that can be tweaked. I've also been burned too many times with vendors over-promising and discontinuing solutions that were working for me. I've also been working in an environment that scales wierdly (thousands of sites on hundreds of servers instead of dozens of sites on thousands of servers), and I've had a lot of the management tools provided be crippling with this inverse scaling problem
I've also seen these highly regarded enterprise wifi vendors try to provide wifi service for a conference and fail miserably.
When I see something interesting and useful from a vendor, I immediatly try and figure out if what they have is really something special by trying to figure out how to get the same result from open software. Frequently I find that the major gaps between the two are mostly marketing with a dose of management tools.
As SCALE continues to grow, I also need to try and anticipate future problems by thinking through them because I don't have any time to experiment (setup on Thursday, users arrive on Friday, teardown for the year on Sunday)
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