Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Clay Fiske clay at bloomcounty.org
Thu Jan 29 18:12:23 UTC 2015


Anyone played with/deployed any Mimosa gear? I’m not a “real” wireless guy so I’ll spare folks any armchair speculation. Just looks interesting to me.

-c


On Jan 29, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Steven Miano <mianosm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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