Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Thu Jan 29 16:34:30 UTC 2015

Another hat that I haven't seen thrown in the ring yet is Aerohive.

They're great to work with - and the product is decent in terms of
scalability across geographically locations with management being hosted by
them, or you - as/when needed.

Huge list of features and capabilities (from having silly fun with the LEDs
on the units, to 802.1x and WIPS/etc).

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Paul Nash <paul at nashnetworks.ca> wrote:

> You can also VLAN allocation through RADIUS.  Our setup has a single SSID,
> 250-odd user accounts.  User connects to the SSID & authenticates with
> their userid/password and is assigned to their VLAN, which connects them to
> the appropriate DHCP server, gateway, etc.
>
> Makes management and segregation fairly trivial (for non-trivial values of
> trivial :-)).
>
>         paul
>
>
> > On Jan 29, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Tyler Mills <tylermills at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Most of the issues are related to firmware.  Most of my UBNT experience
> was
> > with the UAP-Pro and the UAP-AC, and it wasn't a good experience.
> > Production firmwares seem to be of beta quality.
> >
> > For features, they can't compete with Ruckus.  One thing I can think of
> off
> > the top of my head is support for tagging management on its own VLAN and
> > tagging wired traffic onto another.  If you were to implement this on the
> > UBNT products you would have to SSH into every single one and implement
> the
> > features as you would on a linux box, and it might work.  Ruckus, you
> > configure the VLAN's how you would want through the Zonedirector or the
> > AP's GUI and it will just work.
> >
> > They cost more, but you get what you pay for.
> >
> > On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:54:44 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Did you figure out why it was dropping out? All of it dropping out? Just
> >> some APs dropping? Just some users dropping?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Mike Hammett
> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> >> http://www.ics-il.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >> From: "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org>
> >> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, nanog at nanog.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:34:46 AM
> >> Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
> >>
> >> I had a bad experience with it one time at a tradeshow environment. 6
> >> access points setup for public wifi. The radio levels were quite good in
> >> various areas of the tradeshow however traffic would keep dropping out
> at
> >> random intervals as soon as about 300 users were online. It wasn't my
> idea
> >> to use UBNT but it definitely turned me off of their product after
> digging
> >> into their gear...
> >>
> >> Again as someone pointed out, for residential and perhaps SOHO
> >> applications it can probably work well - and in my opinion it's priced
> for
> >> that market.
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM
> >> To: nanog at nanog.org
> >> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
> >>
> >> What problems have you had with UBNT?
> >>
> >> It's zero hand-off doesn't work on unsecured networks, but that's about
> >> the extent of the issues I've heard of other than stadium density
> >> environments.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Mike Hammett
> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> >> http://www.ics-il.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >> From: "Manuel Marín" <mmg at transtelco.net>
> >> To: nanog at nanog.org
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:06:39 PM
> >> Subject: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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