If a customer require guest wifi with promotions and branding and iis interested in guest analytics and active engagement with users via emails, sms...then look into SkyFii now Beonic.
From IT perspective very easy to setup and when it is running, just push the maintenance of portals to marketing department. No IT skills required for creating and maintaining portals and creating analytic reports, engaging customers,...
It also uses location data from infrastructure so you can customize customer expirience based on physical location.
If your customer is looking just for simple guest portal with limited branding and promotions then Aruba Central is a great and easy solution. You can demonstrate Central guest portal very easily with evaluation subscription and Instant AP. Going from controller based AOS6 and 8 to cloud based AOS10 is not too complicated. AOS10 does not have physical controllers any more. Controllers are migrated into Gateways and do not controll APs. The consequence of this is that customer's controller licenses can't be used any more. You need to have Aruba Central subscriptions for Mobility Gateways and Access Points.
Clearpass solution is great, but it is the most complex to implement and maintain.
Best, Gorazd
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Gorazd Kikelj
MVP Guru 2024
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