Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back

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lrmobile_Merlin 12/5/2012 | 3:13:49 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back I reckon all the major PBX vendors will have announced FMC product solutions very shortly.

The big PBX companies all have enterprise reseller partnerships with carriers not just Siemens. Siemens, Avaya, Cisco, Nortel have plenty of installed customers that will be interested in upgrading their PBXs to FMC when these companies announce their FMC products.

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RichardBennett 12/5/2012 | 3:13:31 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back Aruba sent a funny message about the Trapeze Smart Mobile architecture to their sales people, and Trapeze is having lots of fun with it. See my blog to get in on the fun:

http://bennett.com/blog/index....

RB

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joset01 12/5/2012 | 3:13:30 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back Don't quite understand why they'd be freaking out right now. Wasn't the Trapeze system unveiled a while back?

DJ

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lrmobile_strungup 12/5/2012 | 3:13:29 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back If all FUDs are signs of running scared, the valley is ready for a marathon.

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RichardBennett 12/5/2012 | 3:13:29 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back Aruba is apparently reacting to questions from customers and prospects with a set of talking points. The strange thing is that the talking points have virtually nothing to do with the actual Trapeze architecture, they're a big straw man exercise.

Trapeze has separated the control plane from the data plane, eliminating the bottleneck that will plague 11n deployments based in the old-fashioned anorexic AP model.

Eventually, Aruba will have to do the same thing, but they'll be playing catchup.

(full disclosure) This makes me very happy since I work for Trapeze, although not in the capacity of a spokesperson.

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lbknick123 12/5/2012 | 3:13:28 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back great -- in two years when businesses of any reasonable size start deploying certified .11n products, Trapeze (if they are still around) will have a nice architecture.

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lrmobile_strungup 12/5/2012 | 3:13:27 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back Since when does FUD rely solely on technical merit? I guess you haven't seen enough of FUDs that flies around between companies. This is on par with every day rebuttals that gets issued to the field, and doesn't hold a candle to the smoke and mirror tactics out there.

I think you're reading too much into it.

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wirelessfreak 12/5/2012 | 3:13:27 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back Seems more like maybe Trapeze is desparate. Since when do companies post their FUD wars in gory detail on a public forum? Only when you have nothing else to lose.

Has anyone noticed that Trapeze goes out of its way to mention Meru and Aruba in every press release? Must want to make sure they show up in those google searches.

This should be a fun one though - maybe even more entertaining than Cisco vs. Meru. I bet there is going to be a hanging at Aruba for the person who leaked that email. Would love to be a fly on wall when that happens - or is it a fly on the carcass?

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wavefront 12/5/2012 | 3:13:27 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back From your blog:

"Only Trapeze allows you to use the right tool for the right environment."

Chantry (now Siemens) has had this architecture from day 1. APs can concurrently bridge some traffic locally while tunneling other traffic through the controller. All APs are administered and managed centrally; local bridging continues even if the connection to the controller is lost.

What's the old saying - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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RichardBennett 12/5/2012 | 3:13:26 PM

re: Product Roundup: WiFi Strikes Back Good point, having the right architecture is necessary but not sufficient. You also have to implement it correctly and supplement it with the right feature set. It's not clear that anyone else has actually done the whole job.

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