That's it. Step 1, buy the equipment at full price. Step 2, pay for the cloud management license, yearly. Step 3, no extended warranty option, so pay full price if equipment from step one fails. We just dumped our meraki deployment because of it: ----
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---- Eric Miller, CCNP Network Engineering Consultant (407) 257-5115 -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:55 AM To: NANOG Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office I try to avoid anything that Cisco has touched. Also not a fan of their stop paying our recurring fee and the device becomes a brick policy. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Bohn" <bohn@adelphi.edu> To: "Eric C. Miller" <eric@ericheather.com> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 8:41:52 AM Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office We are substantially larger and use Aruba, but I am wondering why no one has mentioned Meraki (now cisco-meraki). We tried one of their give-away aps and it seemed fine, with the 'cloud management.' I am not advocating Meraki, just curious. best, Dennis Bohn Manager of Network and Systems Adelphi University bohn@adelphi.edu 5168773327 On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Eric C. Miller <eric@ericheather.com> wrote:
+1 Xirrus, especially for the multi radio arrays. Crowded common areas benefit from sector antennas attached to individual radios. Also, there XMS server is really useful for managing a large cluster. Ubiquiti UniFi is good for smaller installations, but I wouldn't trust them for enterprise level reliability.
Eric Miller, CCNP Network Engineering Consultant (407) 257-5115
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lyon Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:17 AM To: Manuel Marín Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
Check out Xirrus On Jan 28, 2015 9:08 PM, "Manuel Marín" <mmg@transtelco.net> wrote:
Dear nanog community
I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs that you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend recommended me Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share your experience with Ruckus or with a similar vendor. My experience with ubiquity for this type of requirement was not that good.
Thank you and have a great day