Well, my boss forced me to do a bake-off between Aruba and Meru a couple years
back, even though we are an Aruba campus. The big selling points for me were
ARM (Adaptive Radio Management) and band steering. It was funny. I asked the
Meru engineer why my Macbook Pro was on 5Ghz one minute and the
Toms Hardware did a very in-depth analysis of several manufacturers last
year. I would go to their web site and see what they have to say.
I've tested Cisco, Aruba, Meru, Ruckus and have considered Motorola
recently. Tom's is a much more thorough test group.
My results also considered reliability
On 1/18/2012 7:30 PM, Scott Smith wrote:
> I've seen many times on this list people discuss the differences
> between Cisco, Aruba, and Meru. I know there are pros and cons of
> each, but I'm wanting to get feedback from people who have either done
> a "bake off" or at least tested between them, a
I second Lee's comments. There is so much choice out there that you may
discover you can find something that fits your specs more precisely for a
better price. We did a bake off between eight vendors and ended up choosing
Aruba from the bunch as they best fulfilled our overall WLAN needs and w
I really liked Aerohive's marketing campaign from last year:
http://aerohive.com/isc
The Areohive Infinitely Scalable Controller
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Lee H Badman wrote:
> Not that you're asking... but I'd also throw Ruckus, Motorola,
> Bluesocket, Meraki, and Aerohive into the mix
Not that you're asking... but I'd also throw Ruckus, Motorola, Bluesocket,
Meraki, and Aerohive into the mix right now. The WLAN space has had some
amazing development and certain vendors have sweetspots that the others don't,
depending on a particuilar set of conditions and scale. They all have
I've seen many times on this list people discuss the differences
between Cisco, Aruba, and Meru. I know there are pros and cons of
each, but I'm wanting to get feedback from people who have either
done a "bake off" or at least tested between them, and more
specifically s
Bruce,
Are you saying that you are providing HDTV channels to all their wide screen
TV's in the rooms over wireless that is equivalent in quality to what they
would get from satellite or standard CATV? I would be curious to hear what the
quality of experience is for the students watching HDTV,
Sorry, I meant the STB-HD boxes not the client. I should have been more clear.
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Russ,
I disagree regarding IPTV. We have been successfully running IPTV with our
Aruba system for over two years. We started with a single 5 GHz 11n-only SSID,
and then expanded to an 802.11a/b/g/n SSID. I expect Cisco has something
similar. I think Lee Badman is one of the Cisco experts here.
>
> Yes.
>
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> Can this
I would like to know if anyone has evaluated to use Internet Service
Provider level APs to cover and offer wireless services in dorms or wide
areas with hundreds of users, instead of using Enterprise APs designed to
support 25 users per AP.
Soon, we are going to test GoNet Systems ISP level APs to
Hey All,
Just keep in mind that there are very few smartphone/tablets that support
802.11n in the 5Ghz and iPhones(at least half of smartphones here) don't
even support 5Ghz period (not even 802.11a). I don't look after our dorms
wireless but they implemented a "fast" SSID in the 5Ghz 802.11n to a
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I totally agree. They definitely make retrofitting an older dorm a lot easier.
Zach Jennings
Senior Network Server Manager
Aruba Certified Mobility Professional, Airheads MVP
West Chester University of PA
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I pretty much second Rick’s comments. We also don’t have wireless-only dorms
yet, but the next one will have much less wire than our existing ones.
One AP per suite is what we’ve done, but you have to also consider non-RF
placement issues – vandalism concerns, maintenance access and residents
c
Yeah- some are single-band with the notion that you'd put 5 GHz in one single
gang existing cable location, 2.4 Ghz in the next... odd sounding at first, but
opens up a lot of creative options (again, where you have existing UTP).
-Lee
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Yeah- but even better are single-gang flush mount.
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/altitude-4511.aspx who makes it is
irrelevant to my point- just calling out the power of not running new wire for
wireless on the ceiling when lots of it is sitting there unused in the wall.
But you do he
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Lee H Badman wrote:
> Though slightly off topic, I gotta chime in. I wish all major vendors
> offered an in-wall wireless AP option- very empowering for environments
> with lots of unused UTP.
Seems to be getting better. Aruba have just announced something
("wall-to-wall
You mean like this?
http://www.arubanetworks.com/product/aruba-ap-93h-access-point/
Zach Jennings
Senior Network Server Manager
Aruba Certified Mobility Professional, Airheads MVP
West Chester University of PA
610-436-1069
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Sara,
We are testing wireless only, and here is what I would do if I were making a
new dorm:
-Pull 2 UTP circuits to each room (it lasts decades and doesn't add that much
to the total cost of the building)
-Activate those circuits only on request and for a fee (only have enough switch
ports for
Though slightly off topic, I gotta chime in. I wish all major vendors offered
an in-wall wireless AP option- very empowering for environments with lots of
unused UTP.
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
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We just finished rolling out wifi to all dorms. Each dorm is uniquely
different in terms of age and/or construction materials. I used a variety of
tools to determine placement of ap's. However, the first thing I did was place
one or two AP's in area's that I thought would be strategic. I use
Hello,
I am looking for anyone who has moved to wireless only dorms. We have fast
track dorm construction project that is starting and our CIO would like to make
it wireless only. I am wondering if anyone has done this and if so what kind
of advice or comments can you share. We will be using
Content preview: On 1/18/2012 8:54 AM, Osborne, Bruce W wrote: > James, > >
We are running AP-125 and AP-105 APs from a Server 2008R2 DHCP cluster with
no issues. Is Dynamic ARP Inspection, DHCP Snooping, or IP Source Guard
(Cisco
terms) enabled on the AP ports? I know Aruba had an i
James,
We are running AP-125 and AP-105 APs from a Server 2008R2 DHCP cluster with no
issues. Is Dynamic ARP Inspection, DHCP Snooping, or IP Source Guard (Cisco
terms) enabled on the AP ports? I know Aruba had an issue with early AP-125 APs
and those services. You either had to disable those o
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