Hi all,
We are using Cisco's WCS and controller infrastructure for our
wireless LAN. We've had a number of frustrations with it (most of
which have been documented on this list by one or another of you
all). We are a small school with limited staff and are finding that
managing the Airespace (I mean Cisco) wireless system is taking more
staff time than we anticipated.
So: With the upcoming advent of 802.11n, which would require
replacing all our APs, we are taking the opportunity to revisit our
choice of platform. The second place vendor response to our RFP a few
years ago was Meru. I was very impressed with their technology but
unsure of their longevity as a company. Now they seem to be doing
very well and are doing cool things with 11n as well as the older
standards.
I have two questions:
1) Does anyone know of anyone other than Meru that's doing anything
innovative with enterprise wireless? (My take is that Cisco, Aruba,
Chantry, Trapeze, etc. are basically the same technology with
slightly different feature-sets and interface).
2) Does anyone using Meru have anything negative to say about them?
I've talked to several campuses using Meru and they all seem very
happy. Somebody must have had a bad experience! What technological
gotchas have you run into? What didn't pan out the way you expected
from the sales hype?
Thanks,
- Mark
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Mark Berman, Director for Networks & Systems
Williams College, OIT, Jesup Hall
Williamstown, MA. 01267 413-597-2092
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