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RE: Small-Scale IP-Based TV Services

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 04-19-2024 09:58:26 AM
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We just went through the same thing here. We are shutting down our video service that was for 11,000 on-campus students due to extremely low usage. Our Housing folks still needed to support 140 TVs in lounges and common areas. We looked at a few options, and found Xfinity to be the best solution for ...

RE: Juniper acquisition by HPE and other manufacturers

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 01-12-2024 04:00:32 PM
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Hi Adam- Yes, if I had not already made the decision and didn't have the relationships that I have with people at Mist I would definitely be less confident. I am not sure if it would have changed my decision in the end. It is a hard decision to move from a vendor you have known and for years, and ...

RE: Juniper acquisition by HPE and other manufacturers

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 01-12-2024 09:00:05 AM
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We are moving from Aruba to Mist. We have about 2,500 Mist APs now out of 16,000 total. I am glad to talk off-line. Amel

RE: Juniper acquisition by HPE and other manufacturers

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 01-11-2024 05:15:30 PM
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Based on my conversations with people involved, I feel comfortable with the direction we chose to go last year. Instead of considering early retirement, I am cautiously optimistic. Amel Caldwell University of Washington

RE: Update on Aruba Central Licensing

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 12-19-2023 12:58:00 PM
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These are brand new AP-315s that have not been on the network before. They are supposed to be supported on 8.10 code, but only if you have been able to update the flash. And yes, I have known about this issue, for some time. Our hospital project has been going on for a long time and these APs have been ...

RE: Update on Aruba Central Licensing

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 12-19-2023 12:34:03 PM
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I was not going to comment on this, but this morning's antics got the better of me.... My reasons for looking at vendors other than Aruba were because I consider Aruba Central/AOS10 basically a new vendor since the architecture is so different. Then there was the sticker shock. We have been migrating ...

RE: Wi-Fi issues caused by KB5032288?

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 12-15-2023 02:49:41 PM
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In the MS Forum thread, it suggested that it only affected MSCHAPv2 and not EAP-TLS. We run EAP-TLS here and have not been able to reproduce it, but we may just be lucky, and we only have 11r on where we have Mist deployed. Amel

RE: Cluster instability running Aruba 8.10.0.4

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 08-04-2023 04:10:13 PM
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Adam- I am old school and shy away from WebUI, but yes, clicking the trash can is probably the same as just doing a 'clear gap-db ap-name BLAH' The problem with this in clusters is that APs bring up a primary and secondary tunnel to two different controllers. When the AP is up, the MM knows both ...

RE: Cluster instability running Aruba 8.10.0.4

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 08-04-2023 03:07:11 PM
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Hi Adam- Did you run clear gap-db on the APs you removed from service? Also there is a 'stale-ap' option to that command that helps, and it requires a certain order to actually clear them from the database. Regarding APs coming up in Instant mode, we are seeing that a lot lately as well. I believe ...

RE: Cluster instability running Aruba 8.10.0.4

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 08-02-2023 11:25:30 AM
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Hi Dawn- We just upgraded to 8.10.0.7 in the last couple of weeks so I can't speak to 8.10.0.5. I just grabbed some data and we don't have any APs that are up that do not have a secondary tunnel, and we have had some APs with missed heartbeats. I checked two of our clusters, one is 8 7240XMs with ...

RE: Sanity check on 6 Ghz and 5 Ghz roaming

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 07-10-2023 05:20:05 PM
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Hi Ryan- I think you are right on the mark. We were fortunate in that we had a fairly dense deployment to support Voice over Wi-Fi. We do have older buildings which need a redesign and in these 6GHz becomes a best effort but it should work as well as 5GHz. I have heard people say that if your 5GHz ...

RE: Aruba Airwave "Replace Hardware" Bulk option?

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 05-18-2023 04:19:25 PM
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Hi Thomas- We do this on a somewhat regular basis. I generally look at all down devices (from the expanded Top folder ), then select edit and then select all and replace hardware. If the old AP and the new AP have the same name, then I get pretty good success rate. We use DHCP to assign addresses ...

RE: 6G - what has your approach been to SSID advertising

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 03-17-2023 11:47:57 AM
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Hi Bruce- Actually, the SSID needs to be 'eduroam'. This is because devices have this in their network profile and any variation will be a different network which the device will have no knowledge of. I posted a link from Geant to the list earlier that discusses 6e on eduroam. Amel

RE: 6G - what has your approach been to SSID advertising

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 03-16-2023 03:57:19 PM
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Hi Jeffrey- There is a eduroam document covering 6e deployment recommendations. https://eduroam.org/eduroam-deployment-considerations-on-wi-fi-certified-6e/. They recommend re-using eduroam SSID in 6GHz. I tend to not use different SSIDs based on band, but there are a lot of people out there that ...

RE: Captive portals - Friend or Foe?

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 11-11-2022 10:24:58 AM
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We have an Open network that is used for guests and staff with a captive portal that punts people through our SSO to register their device and then uses MAC caching. Guests have to get a temporary ID. We are implementing a splash page that gives people options for short-term guest access, connect to ...

RE: Where's the AP?

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 11-08-2022 01:57:16 PM
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Our Campus Architecture folks are very restrictive on what we can do, but we have been successful in simply painting the APs and we primarily mount on light poles. On our most recent installation, I had to have someone point them out to me. When we mount to the side of a building we generally just leave ...

RE: 6GHz

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 11-08-2022 12:36:09 PM
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Hi Dawn- I don't recall if you are running IPv6 there or not. If you are I would wait for 8.10.0.5 which is due in the next week or so because 8.10.0.4 has high CPU issues with dual-stack clients. I am waiting for 8.10.0.5 to drop then plan to upgrade our whole campus over the next few weeks. I ...

RE: Multi-gig to Aruba AP's

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 09-26-2022 05:25:41 PM
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I completely agree with you Ryan, but in our case, we do have many buildings with 2X or 4X 1G uplinks or even 10G throughout the building and we use 10G or multiples as building uplinks. I think the AP-635s (or AP-45s) are the first APs I have deployed where user traffic could exceed 1Gbps on a single ...

RE: Multi-gig to Aruba AP's

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 09-26-2022 05:09:31 PM
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The way 6GHz is structured with the Primary Scanning Channel being every fourth channel could lead to problems with clients detecting SSIDs in 6GHz if not using 80MHz channels. I don't think you can rely on all clients to support using RNRs to detect 6GHz SSIDs. Amel

RE: Multi-gig to Aruba AP's

Posted By AMEL CALDWELL 09-26-2022 02:17:10 PM
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We are using multi-gig on some of our APs today, mainly for the reasons Ryan and TJ state. However, we are starting to deploy some 6GHz capable APs and are actually seeing clients. In our setup, with 20MHz on 2.4, 40MHz on 5 and 80MHz on 6, you can top out at 1.2Gbps. In my office, I am able to push ...