Just a bit more on Miles' comments- I did like that with Meraki, the controller layer is somebody else's problem. And that when you lose link to the cloud, everything local still pretty much works despite the controller being out there in the Great Beyond.
And if you duct-taped a couple of Meraki MR14s together and put them at the end of a good chain or leather strap, you'd have a nice whoopin' piece. (One MR 14 alone has a fairly good edge you could leverage- may not puncture the skin with it but would certainly leave a good welt.) -Lee -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Miles Davis Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:35 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba vs HP vs Meraki On Apr 13, 2010, at 08:07, gwill...@uccs.edu wrote: > As for Meraki, the concept works in some cases, and I'm not sure what > the educational costs are, but the cost of their APs as advertised and > enterprise controller seems almost the same as Aruba. I have to tout Meraki a little here, especially for environments that are dynamic or open to experimentation. The online, hosted controller (can't bring myself to say "cloud controller") makes making serious network changes -- say, special event networks segregated from your normal wireless, reassigning VLANs, things that I would normally avoid -- brain-dead simple. They've also been extremely open to new feature suggestions, and there's zero effort to trying them out safely. -- // Miles Davis - mi...@cs.stanford.edu - http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~miles // Computer Science Department - Computer Facilities // Stanford University ********** 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/.
