http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2006/07/07/meetinghouse-and-cisco-implications/ Ruminations on Information Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2006/07/07/meetinghouse-and-cisco-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Sean Convery » Blog Archive » Cisco’s Supplicant Strategy Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:16:49 +0000 http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/?p=30#comment-19 [...] Cisco has announced the branding of the Meetinghouse 802.1X supplicant. The “Cisco Secure Services Client” is now available. I wrote about the Meetinghouse and Cisco deal a while back. I was right when I predicted that Cisco would pull Meetinghouse out of the TCG / TNC; that happened pretty fast. However, I was wrong when I predicted that Cisco might sell their client for substantially less than Juniper’s offering or even give it away for free. My reasoning was that Cisco had far more to gain by selling switch migrations enabled by a supported supplicant, than they did in trying to recognize revenue per seat in connecting to those switches. [...] [...] Cisco has announced the branding of the Meetinghouse 802.1X supplicant. The “Cisco Secure Services Client” is now available. I wrote about the Meetinghouse and Cisco deal a while back. I was right when I predicted that Cisco would pull Meetinghouse out of the TCG / TNC; that happened pretty fast. However, I was wrong when I predicted that Cisco might sell their client for substantially less than Juniper’s offering or even give it away for free. My reasoning was that Cisco had far more to gain by selling switch migrations enabled by a supported supplicant, than they did in trying to recognize revenue per seat in connecting to those switches. [...]

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