All New Wireless

We just got our new wireless system from Aruba Networks. I was very excited to get this equipment. It is a really easy / awesome way to handle wireless, and what's better, they dropped thier price to meet the "other" company we were looking at. Aruba produces some serious Enterprise Wireless equipment. Setup was unbelievably easy. No configuration is made to any of the AP's. There is a base controller unit that we installed in our server rack. We configured the secure SSID, and then the public access SSID. Made one DNS entry, and viola. Anywhere we plug in an AP we get immediate secure access.

The Aruba gear locks onto your network and then GRE tunnels back to the controller where all of it's security and configuration data are TFTP'd back to the individual AP's. Basically, it took about 1 hour to configure the controller and the network, and now it only takes the time to plug the AP into the network (because all the ap's are POE).

Very Cool!