Differences between HMOL Classic and HMNG

[jakub_sochacki]

Hi,

We currently use HiveManager Online Classic to provide WiFi for 3 of our 4 sites. We will be deploying Aerohive also on the 4th site, which is by far the biggest.

I am wondering whether we should go with NG or Classic?

If we go with NG we would move the other sites to NG as well on a later date.

Is there any official statement from Aerohive what their plans are with Classic? How long will they develop both platforms?

Is there ant official information on features that are missing from NG?

Are you guys still deploying Classic for new installations?

Thanks!

Jakub

[samantha_lynn · Accepted solution]

Hi Jakub, the main difference between Classic and NG is that NG is cloud based. Classic is still available for deployment, and is still supported fully, but all new features are going to be in NG from now on. Eventually NG will be the only supported platform, but they have not released any end of life date for Classic, so this is still a while down the road. The closest we have to official documentation on NG features (not missing features I'm afraid, but features in general) would be here- https://www.aerohive.com/technology/cloud-inspired/. You can also sign up for a free trail of NG at cloud.aerohive.com> Register that will last for 30 days. If you want to keep using NG at the end of that, we would just need to apply an entitlement key to that instance, so you would be able to keep anything you built during your trail.