Tom:
You didn't need the management capabilities of a CBW product because you had
AirWave do that for you. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that most
organizations prefer to use the vendor's management interface rather than a
third-party one.
The first point you raise about true mobility is d
Different vendor products offer different extra gravy. But in general, I
see CBW as providing only a few benefits. They are important benefits for
large scale implementations, but may not be worth the additional cost for
small to medium scale deployments. I see the main advantages as:
1) True m
Most wireless networks will not see the effect of co-channel interference
and degradation from neighboring networks unless they are moving serious
amounts of traffic. Remember the Network Computing's tests used Chariot to
fill the pipe.
So just because you haven't seen a problem in your deployme
Good discussion going on here. It should probably be clarified that having
a controller does not mean that all the data flows have to or will be
centralized.
There are generally three planes: management, control, and data. Almost all
the vendors provide a centralized management plan and that's
Flexibility is paramount in any Wireless network. We all want to build the
minimum to meet the coverage and performance expectations for today and
tomorrow. The problem is what about day after tomorrow? Once wireless kindles
in minor uses and innovation begins then the usage patterns start to
On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Kevin Whitney wrote:
Any thoughts or advice on implementing/selecting a wireless system for
use in a High School environment ?
Hi Kevin,
In talking to IT staff from K-12's at our (WiscNet's) last conference,
one interesting thing I found was that technology has to
Hi Kevin,
At Villanova, we're migrating from Cisco "fat" APs to Meru. One of the
things we found is, we need fewer Meru APs than before. For example, we
were able to provide service for over 500 law students taking exams with
10 Meru APs in 5 classrooms. Since all the APs were on a single
Kevin -
25 APs is getting on the heavy side for managing them individually. We
had around that number of Cisco FAT APs and management was very
difficult. I didn't have an easy way to determine usage, upgrade
software, update configurations or do troubleshooting. Going to a
controller based syst
Kevin -
I would caution against just looking at coverage for your high school
deployment. I would also consider your user density. We originally went for
coverage over capacity at our Law School deployment a couple of years ago.
When the instructors "discovered" wireless coverage, they had t
May be a little off subject but I would like to post question out there
as it seems there are some happy Meru users here on this forum..
Any thoughts or advice on implementing/selecting a wireless system for
use in a High School environment ?
Specifically, would love any feedback on pros/con
Debbie,
They were Intel 2915 clients. I have some pretty dense spreadsheets covering
various permutations of clients and infrastructure if you are interested in
seeing raw results. We didn't come away from this with any firm conclusions
about what's good and what's bad (I guess we've learned our l
We just selected Foundry wireless (AKA Rebranded Meru) in part because
they "do it different". We are a Foundry shop and have found that
Foundry makes excellent decisions for their products so their choice to
work with Meru for their wireless solution adds to our confidence that
Meru is an excelle
On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:24, Dave Molta wrote:
Just to elaborate a bit, the article James sent around was not the
original Meru-Cisco feature story but rather a column that reports
on results of subsequent testing. In this column, I reported three
things. First, Cisco was unsuccessful in gett
I misspoke. We do have the visualize and locate pieces. We have not
imported maps for all our areas yet and haven't fully explored the
capabilities.
Tim Winders | Associate Dean of Information Technology | South Plains
College
From: Winders, Timothy A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thur
Each controller has it's own web-based interface for management and
configuration. For smaller installations, this should be good enough.
When you get to larger installations with multiple controllers and
require location and visualization you'll want to look at the
Application Suite product. You
Thanks for the clarification, Dave. I hadn't seen the followup to the
original article. This is very helpful.
Tim Winders | Associate Dean of Information Technology | South Plains
College
From: Dave Molta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:25 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@L
Just to elaborate a bit, the article James sent around was not the original
Meru-Cisco feature story but rather a column that reports on results of
subsequent testing. In this column, I reported three things. First, Cisco
was unsuccessful in getting the Wi-Fi Alliance to rescind Meru's
certificatio
A while back, Meru did not yet have a central management console, but it
was pending while we decided on which thin AP road to go down. Can
anyone comment on how effective/buggy Meru's management platform is?
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
KC2IYK, CWNA/CWSP
Information Technology and Ser
Jamie,
My Meru network was one of the test networks used in the evaluation
of the product for that article. While onsite the engineers were not
able, on the latest GA code, to verify any violation of the standard and
found no problems with good neighbor behaviours. It is very important
to pay
We did just the same thing this year. We had a relatively small Cisco
AP installation, with about 25 APs. We needed to go to full campus
coverage would have to forklift the Cisco gear. We went with Meru and
I've never looked back. Our wired gear is all Cisco, but we've been
very pleased with th
I'm with you Jamie. Standards are extremely important, but only to the
extent that they serve the consumer. You still have to buy the whole system
from one vendor, so what is the difference? As long as the clients will be
interoperable, then I don't think it really matters. I could be missing
somet
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