Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who WiFi vendors does everyone use? REVISITED

2016-04-05 Thread Janice Gildawie
Bard College at Simon's Rock (Great Barrington, MA) 650 clients Cisco Meraki APs - about 115 or so Cloud Based/not controller based Cisco Meraki Cloud On 4/1/2016 10:05 AM, Watters, John wrote: Can we revisit this subject? It seems to have gotten a good number of responses but the information

RE: Who WiFi vendors does everyone use? REVISITED

2016-04-05 Thread Jennifer Francis Wilson
University of Central Lancashire (UK) Avg. Clients - 10,000 Peak Clients - 13,000 Vendor - Cisco APs - 1200 Controller based (3x 5508 but moving to 2 HA pairs of 8540s) Management - Cisco Prime Primary SSID eduroam? - Not yet, thinking about it. Guest/Visitor Management system - HP Aruba Clearpass

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who WiFi vendors does everyone use? REVISITED

2016-04-05 Thread John Rodkey
Westmont College, Santa Barbara CA 3680 clients (1200 students) Cisco Meraki APs - 280 active Cloud Based Cisco Meraki Cloud Typical aggregate traffic 2.3TB per 24 hours. (280Mb/s) On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Janice Gildawie wrote: > Bard College at Simon's Rock (Great Barrington, MA) > 650

aruba Atmosphere Breakout Sessions Now Available

2016-04-05 Thread trent . hurt
Login/account required to view the sessions... http://page.arubanetworks.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvajLdu%2FhmjTEU5z14uopW6%2B3iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMT8JkNLrYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3FLNkNyMBvRhfnDw%3D%3D See Bruce this list isn't all Cisco wifi. :) Trenton Hurt, CWNE #172,

backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread John Rodkey
I have need for a fairly inexpensive, low bandwidth (10Mbps), short distance (<200 ft) point to point wireless connection . I am aware of the Cambrium ePMP 1000 and Ubiquiti nano. Would anyone like to compare these items or propose other good solutions to this type of situation? John *

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Ian McDonald
A pair of (cisco) access points from your scrap pile in bridge mode? 100% inexpensive ☺ -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Rodkey Sent: 05 April 2016 22:36 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Sub

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread John Rodkey
That's what I've got in place now, but it also costs because of the yearly license fees. It hasn't been 100% reliable, either (interference on 2.4MHz, I'm pretty sure), so going 5 is desirable. John On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Ian McDonald wrote: > A pair of (cisco) access points from your

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Ian McDonald
Yearly license fees? I see that 2.4 might not be ideal. What stops you using the 5G radios? -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Rodkey Sent: 05 April 2016 22:53 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Coehoorn, Joel
I've used Engenius bridges in that scenario. Just $70 each, no licensing: http://www.amazon.com/EnGenius-Technologies-Wireless-Bridge-ENS500/dp/B00BOVOM0S/ Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology 402.363.5603 *jcoeho...@york.edu * The mission of York College is to transform lives thr

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Christopher Stave
10 mb and 200 ft SHOULD be do-able with most old access points, just check to see if they have a bridge mode and use that. If it's within one smallish building, I've had a very good experience with HomePlug powerline adapters (at home, though.) While waiting to get cable run out to a newly-leased

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Thomas Carter
I use the ENH500 (http://www.amazon.com/EnGenius-Technologies-Wireless-Bridge-ENH500/dp/B006M1PM22); I’m not sure of the difference between the ENH500 and ENS500, but this has been extremely reliable to run across a 4 lane street that we have no wiring across. We’ve had this solution in place f

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who WiFi vendors does everyone use? REVISITED

2016-04-05 Thread Troy Travis
School name: Miami University of Ohio Total clients served (including guest): 20-25K users daily across 3 campuses plus 2 teaching locations Brand of AP's: Cisco Number of AP's: 3659 APs. A mix of 3702s, 2702s, 3602s, 2602s, 3502s, and 702Ws for indoor coverage. 1520s, 1532s, and 1550s for outdo

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread John Rodkey
I don't have any spare 5G in weatherproof. Also this is proof of concept for another non Meraki site . On Apr 5, 2016 2:54 PM, "Ian McDonald" wrote: > Yearly license fees? > > > > I see that 2.4 might not be ideal. What stops you using the 5G radios? > > > > -- > > ian > > > > *From:* The EDUCAU

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Scott Fortin
+1 for Engenius ENH500. $150 and you have a reliable 300mbps link *Scott Fortin* Network Infrastructure Manager Southern Maine Community College 2 Fort Road South Portland, Maine 04106 Office: (207) 741-5811 Cell: (603) 915-0800 ​ [image: http://www.smccme.edu/] [image: h