Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Thu Jan 29 18:15:33 UTC 2015

Thus far only available for backhaul, but they're looking pretty good from the reports I've read. 

There will be a webinar in about an hour. http://mimosa.co/webinar 

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

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

From: "Clay Fiske" <clay at bloomcounty.org> 
To: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:12:23 PM 
Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office 

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 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 