Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Fri Jan 30 14:06:59 UTC 2015

My personal experience is that the Ruckus kit outperforms the Cisco Air-O-Net stuff.  This was looking at penetration through concrete walls, co-existence with other devices, throughput.  

YMMV, I’m not a Cisco expert but *did* have a local certified-up-to-his-eyeballs Cisco dude check what I had done, and he could not squeeze any better performance out of the Cisco gear either.  Maybe they just want to sell more APs and controllers?  Oh, and for this application, the Ruckus kit came in an order of magnitude cheaper than Cisco would have.

Ruckus is also *way* easier to configure than Cisco.  Some of the Cisco folk that I know think that that is a point in favour of Cisco, as it adds to job security :-)

	paul

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Edwards, Jermaine <JEdwards at sonifi.com> wrote:
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> Ruckus should work fine for you.  You need to have a controller and need a good RF plan but as far as capacity, throughput, roaming etc they are really solid.  Of course the best is Cisco but if you can't afford them Ruckus is the way to go.  I use them in small and very large convention centers and hotels with no reservation.
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> jle
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> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:55
> To: 'Mike Hammett'; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
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> It was all users getting randomly disconnected ... the AP's stayed online but the traffic would completely halt for 15-30 seconds at a time.  Their association with the AP would stay in tact ....
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> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:53 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
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> Did you figure out why it was dropping out? All of it dropping out? Just some APs dropping? Just some users dropping? 
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> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> 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 
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> 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... 
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> 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. 
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> Paul 
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> -----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 
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> What problems have you had with UBNT? 
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> 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. 
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> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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> 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 
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> Dear nanog community 
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> 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. 
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> Thank you and have a great day 
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