I did look at Meraki early on- you are correct that I saw them before they added rogue detection.
I will also add that I am gaining a much better familiarization with BlueSocket's vWLAN architecture (outside of my university duties), which I would describe in simplest terms as living somewhere between Meraki in the cloud and the heavy controller vendors. It is a very interesting system as well, with some distinct competitive advantages, and I would say that if you are open minded enough to be looking beyond the major players, BlueSocket is worth throwing in the mix. -Lee ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of John Rodkey [rod...@westmont.edu] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:19 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba vs HP vs Meraki Reading Lee's review of Meraki, it appears that he demo'ed the system prior to their introduction of rogue detection. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:01 PM, John Rodkey <rod...@westmont.edu<mailto:rod...@westmont.edu>> wrote: We moved from Aruba to Meraki within the last year. We were able to get considerably more saturation of the campus with wireless using Meraki than would have been possible for the same cost with Aruba. Administration of the access points was much more intuitive with Meraki than our experience with Aruba, and the functionality provided by the cloud-based controller is quite extensive. Deployment is very much plug and play: the WAPs auto-configure themselves. We've also used the mesh capability built into the Meraki products to extend coverage where we have power but no network connections. Meraki has been very responsive to us in dealing with the problems we have encountered. In retrospect, most of the problems were either Radius configuration or client computer problems. The few that weren't client/config problems were addressed quickly and professionally. We're happy with the results. Stats: we have 270 802.11N APs deployed, 2393 distinct clients. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Ethan Sommer <somm...@gac.edu<mailto:somm...@gac.edu>> wrote: We are considering replacing our 200+ AP wireless infrastructure with a controller based 802.11n system. I believe we have narrowed it down to Aruba, HP Procurve (we use HP switch gear), and Meraki. I have two questions: 1. Are there any hidden costs we should watch out for with any of these (particularly Aruba.) Will we hit major costs other than the up front cost for the APs and the controllers? 2. I know a lot of schools are very happily using Aruba, but I haven't heard of any schools using HP and very few using Meraki. Are there any schools who have gone with Aruba and regretted it? If so, why? Are there any schools out there using HP Procurve (formerly Colubrius) or Merkai? What do you think of them? Did you have any surprises after you deployed? Ethan -- Ethan Sommer Associate Director of Core Services 507-933-7042 somm...@gustavus.edu<mailto:somm...@gustavus.edu> ********** 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/.
