Why should I go with Cisco Aironet AP?

[m1xed0s]

I am looking at Aironet AP and Aruba IAP and wonder why should I choose Aironet over aruba?

Just for the WIDS built-in on Aruba IAP is a sounding reason for SMB customer to forget about Aironet (regardless pricing), right?

What is your thought? CleanAir is not available when using AP autonomously, right?

Please note, I am talking about autonomous AP environment for SMB.

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Have you looked at below products ? Those are more suited for SMB environment & you do not require any controllers at your premises to manage it. (MR34 as example, there are several other products available)

https://meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless/mr34

HTH

Rasika

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[m1xed0s]

Not going buy or deploy Meraki. 3 sales people called as I requested a demo unit and I still not receiving one in 3 months...

[Rasika Nayanajith]

:) I had a similar experience to get a demo unit, but did not took that long though..

Meraki also part of Cisco... I think it has good features compare to Autonomous AP where you can monitor your wireless environment without having any other products

HTH

Rasika