Apple Tv

[guzmanhm]

Im looking a a solution to help segment apple tvs in my buildings. We are a cisco shop and have tried bonjour gateway did not work as advertised. Right now all of our apple tvs connect to our 802.1x environment in the same VLAN as our workstations. We are looking for a solution just to show the apple tvs in that site only, and not be able to see any other sites apple tvs.

[bentoms]

OSX or iOS?

If iOS, then maybe: http://www.afp548.com/2014/03/10/hidden-airplay-feature-in-the-appletv-6-1-ios-7-1-update/

[guzmanhm]

Both

[bentoms]

The OSX clients should see the devices on the same VLAN, for iOS... Make sure that the wireless can route to the workstation VLAN & then follow the steps in the above link.

OSX clients will use bonjour over the local VLAN, iOS will use bluetooth discovery to get the AppleTV's IP details & will then try to connect using those details.

[lwindram]

We are a similar environment and implemented a segmentation solution in response to frequent ATV drops. This is not an uncommon issue when a large number of ATV's are on a single VLAN. We run over 80 ATV's which presented the user with a long list in Airplay along with the dropping issues. We used a product called clearpass - from Aruba, which allows us to group ATV's with access points, so that each user only "sees" the ATV's that are in their local area. As a computer switches AP's it gets a new list of ATV's in Airplay.

Maybe a little more robust of a solution than you are looking for, but it is working well for us so far (it's only been in place a week)

[Felipe_hernande]

we are a cisco set up and have over 800+ apple tvs. we are using a bonjour gateway for each build broadcasting over 3 vlans and it works good for use. we did have to make update the firmware on access points and controllers.

[guzmanhm]

Felipe Hernandez do you have a separate vlan for the apple tvs? or are they in your site vlan?

[Felipe_hernande]

no we don't but we do have all of our Apple device on the same vlan. we have since grown on device and are 1000 device now. let me know if you have any more questions.