Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Thu Jan 29 18:17:23 UTC 2015

If all goes well, my Mimosa gear should be arriving this week :)

-Mike

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Clay Fiske <clay at bloomcounty.org> wrote:

> 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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