Disappointed with AeroHive
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Linksys is belkin now. But, I think there reputations are really only tied by people who think that because Cisco is good product that linksys would be.. and were sorely disappointed. I think most professionals realize the difference.
Now, but while they were internal Cisco slapped the Cisco brand on all of it and merged lines so that it was all one and the same.
I think most professionals realize that once Cisco is claiming it is all Cisco and can leverage "oh, that's a Linksys product" anytime that they want as an excuse that it is Cisco as a whole that is the problem. Once you have to be "in the know" to know which products work and which don't and you can't trust a vendor to make good products or stand behind them, the problem is the vendor, not the products.
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They did have a sales rep reach out and offer a free*** (tons of conditions) ap that could be managed. Notice while They still aren't calling it a controller as the traffic doesn't originate through the device/vm/SaaS it is required for configuring them so I'm not sure how that makes them unique now. So it's obvious they just removed this feature to get more money out of people. I'd think they'd realize they are loosing more money by not giving me a free VM copy of it as at this point I would never consider them for any enterprise wi-fi project and will not have an opportunity to test it to make up for this bad experience now.
The biggest differentiator between Aerohive and our competitors is our ability to operate without a controller. Our controller-less architecture provides a cost effective solution with no single point of failure or bottleneck. By removing the controller we have developed an architecture around a centralized management system, that can be hosted either in the cloud or on premise, while managing your networks policies and configurations at the edge.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think most professionals realize that once Cisco is claiming it is all Cisco and can leverage "oh, that's a Linksys product"
The looks generally give it away.
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I have a Unifi AC on the way to me now!!!! Guess I'll off load these on ebay. Thanks to the supplier who wishes to remain nameless who decided to send me a new unit from Ubiquiti to they have better service than Aerohive. The Power of posting a ML post on Twitter haha.
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You're confusing the control plane (controller) with the management plane (NMS) . They are entirely separate functional roles.
You can fully configure Aerohive's APs via CLI: Console, SSH or Telnet. This has never been removed.
What was removed early on was the ability to perform a simple configuration through graphical means in a Web browser.
HiveUI only covered a limited subset of the features the APs offer.HiveManager is Aerohive's NMS that is used to configure and monitor the APs. You pay for that on an ongoing basis.
One AP doesn't act as a controller, is is implemented via distributed protocols.
The datasheet is, as far as I can see, accurate.
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@nick_lowe actually aerohive even admitted they hadn't updated the information since they removed AeroHive HiveOS 3.x with HiveUI. Which is what had the features I was referring to. It allowed you to manage all other APs on the network without independent management system. This is one of the other documents they had on there website but have since removed http://www.docdroid.net/vtpx/hiveap100series.pdf.html
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@thecreativeone91 Oh come on, you've just trawled around and found an obsolete document from many years ago, it even has Aerohive's old logo. The data sheets for the AP110s and AP120s were actually updated a good while back. The one for the AP120 is here: http://www.aerohive.com/pdfs/Aerohive-Datasheet-AP120.pdf
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That sheet was linked to on their website. End users aren't suppose to have to just whether a sites content is obsolete or not.
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@nick_lowe said:
@thecreativeone91 Oh come on, you've just trawled around and found an obsolete document from many years ago, it even has Aerohive's old logo. The data sheet for the AP110s and AP120s were actually updated a good while back. The one or the AP120 is here: http://www.aerohive.com/pdfs/Aerohive-Datasheet-AP120.pdf
Welcome to the community @nick_lowe are you from Aerohive by chance?
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@Minion-Queen Hello! No, I'm not from Aerohive.
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Well glad to have you! You just know a bit so it made me wonder
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@thecreativeone91 On a more productive and constructive note, if you drop me an email nick.lowe [at] gmail.com, I'll help you get these working.
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Welcome to the community!
