Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Mon Feb 2 01:51:42 UTC 2015

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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>If you wish to continue using your Meraki networks, you must renew your license immediately. If you choose not to renew, your Meraki systems will cease to provide network access on February 28, 2015. If you have recently made a Meraki purchase, please add your >license key to your Dashboard account.

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Eric Miller, CCNP
Network Engineering Consultant
(407) 257-5115

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at 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. 

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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Dennis Bohn" <bohn at adelphi.edu>
To: "Eric C. Miller" <eric at ericheather.com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at 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 at adelphi.edu
5168773327 

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Eric C. Miller <eric at 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 at 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 at 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 
> > 
> 