If your APs are not under SMARTNet, doesn't mean you can't upgrade to whatever new comes out, it just means it's going to cost you money. =) But perhaps the money saved on SMARTNet will pay down 50% of what it costs to upgrade those APs in 2 years.
Frank From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:50 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Hi Lee- Where I find fault with this is the requirement to keep APs under maintenance. Our model has always been that the APs are cheap enough and reliable enough that it's more cost effective to keep a dozen spares on hand than to keep 1600 APs on maintenance. so in my opinion, Smartnet isn't the right silver bullet for protection against changes to the standard- but I do concede that every environment has their own circumstances. Lee _____ From: Lee Weers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:46 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n We have a campus wide wireless project just starting that we are going to do 802.11n everywhere we can place a Cisco 1252. We couldn't get a guarantee from Cisco that there won't be a hardware change. Just that if the AP is under smartnet they will then do the upgrade for free. I have also heard the same thing from Xirrus with their AP arrays. If they are under maintenance then they will send you the 802.11n radios to swap out. _____ From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:39 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Wondering who is taking the early plunge on 802.11n, who's system you are going with (beyond small pilots), and if you are requiring commitment from the manufacturer that if the standard does change in ways that make pre-standard hardware incompatible, free replacements would be provided? On list or off is OK- just trying to gather data for our own 11n research. Kind regards- Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
