Cisco Buying Airespace

Disagree... on the acquisition. Airespace owns good technology, smart people, vision, and demonstrated ability to execute. Cisco owns a lot of baggage and the likely road of digesting this 'meal' by integrating it into its disarray of a wireless networking strategy will disaffect the very customer base Airespace built thus far. This acquisition will improve the fortunes of Trapeze, who's architecture best resembles Airespace, and possibly Siemens/Chantry - another Airespace-like implementation. For those knowing little about the differences between split-MAC and remote-MAC variants (see CAPWAP Taxonomy IETF draft), Aruba gets some boost.

Should this rumor come true - and I for one hope not - Cisco's best move is to follow their Linksys strategy and let them operate independently... maybe then the management team with the vision that brought Airespace this far will hang around and not orphan the customers who took up the challenge of going with new blood...

Guess what? They are buying Airespace, and Aruba stands to gain the most out of the acquisition. Cisco approached Aruba first and they turned them down. Cisco is basically addressing the Aruba threat and validating their architecture by buying Airespace. Look for Cisco to buy Air Defense also. This is gonna be a fun year.