First time with a Riverbed Xirrus and what I think of it

A partner lend me a Riverbed Xirrus (XD2-230) for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it came at a time I was so overwhelmed with work that I only managed to test it during a couple of mornings and a Sunday afternoon

This is just my opinion taken during the very limited time I had to try the AP and tools. So, on that note here's my opinion of it:

- Dashboard initial configs, Floor Plan, AP location
     Initial configs, ok.
     Floor plan, ok.
     AP Location.... they need to revise this. Dragged the AP to it's exact location but it kept identifying the address of the building that's in front of our office, on the other side of the street. Tried to write the address manually and found out that it didn't recognize addresses in Portugal. Even downtown addresses like "Avenida da Liberdade, 130, Lisboa, Portugal" was translated to "Lisboa, Portugal" and then the portal suggested several addresses in Brazil. I know we're a small country but really?!... moving on

- Couple of PSK ssids; one with no VLAN and other with VLAN Tag enabled.
     Everything worked fine. Both with IPv4 and IPv6 addressing scheme.

- Several type of Portals; Guest portal, self register, voucher
     Easy to configure and deploy

- Content analysis and filtering
     No problems here too.

- Dot1x with ISE
     A lot of struggles here. Manage to have users authenticate by ISE 2.2 but for some reason, the authenticated users wouldn't get the DHCP OFFER packet. Unfortunately time was up and I didn't have the time to confirm if the DHCP REQUEST was reaching the dhcp server or if was the server that wasn't answering or if it was something missing. Maybe next time.

What I liked the most

The EasyPass portal. Very intuitive configuration and easy to deploy.

What I disliked the most

No management app for android or ipad. As a engineer that also supports customers, I've becoming an enthusiastic fan of a app provided by the competition. In seconds, one can have a quick glance at the network status.
Address location was appalling when compared to the competition.

What I would like to have tried but didn't had the time to:

- Coverage site-survey.
- Throughput and capacity test
- Kali tools

Maybe some other time.