On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
Doubt how much PoE you'd use for the MetroWifi stuff, but for the "small/medium events Wifi coverage":
Ubiquiti Networks.
Its cheap and it works great. Support sucks though.
Just watch it here if you're expecting to plug UniFi APs into standard 802.3af/at ports and get power. When I last interacted with them (customer equipment; year or two old, I believe) a lot of their WAPs are 24V, not 802.3af/at.
Only their UniFi AP & AP-LR are 24V, all the rest of their product line (AP-PRO, AP-AC as well as the outdoor units) are 802.3af or 802.3at compliant. You can easily overcome this limitation by using their 8-port ToughSwitch were each POE port can be configured to either 24V or 48V. IMHO Ubiquity's UniFi is a very decent solution when you want to keep budget low. - G.