Hello!
With the recent aquisition of HP (Aruba), the company caused a big problem for their customers. I have a big infraestructure in my company: We have about 350 Access Points HP MSM in the same site (very near each one) and about 150 more in other sites. We have recents projects with this equipaments and we can't replace now (obviously). Even if we wanted, is impossible to change the HP MSM Access Points for Aruba, because this means unavailability for our internal customers and a complex project of migration no need.
We had some meetings with our account manager, but until now we don't have a solution for this.
Will impossible to scale (grow up) our network now, because we can't install one Access Point Aruba near of one Access Point HP MSM. The roaming between these Access Points is not transparent for the clients. Ex.: If some user have a active session with some application and he to move for other WiFi cell, with one diferent Access Point, certainly he'll have a problem. The end of sales of MSM is near.
In our case, this situation will be very common, because we have several Access Points spread by the Site.
@cjoseph wrote:
UPDATE:
Since this posting, it has been advised to avoid multi-vendor roaming at all costs due to how difficult it can be to normalize client behavior. Conversions should be done to entire buildings or floors to avoid roaming between vendors as much as possible.
How can we solve this problem?