"look at replacing the controllers to accommodate the throughput."
I would recommend (if you haven't yet) to take a hard look at your current controllers, and whether you are anywhere near saturating them. If your existing controllers have a lot of headroom, you may not need to upgrade them despite the vendor wanting you to. Put another way- if you are not close to filling the uplinks, and there is no other reason to change controllers, why change them? New APs don't automatically mean new controllers. (Vendor wince goes here________.) It may be worth some "what if" exercises based on your current traffic with a/g to try to guess what 11n might do to the same controllers... -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Huels, Chris Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Bakeoff All, Currently Washington University uses Meru for wireless. In order to migrate to 802.11n, we will have to replace all of the access points and look at replacing the controllers to accommodate the throughput. This has given us the opportunity to go back and assess other vendors that offer enterprise wireless solutions. The vendors that we are looking into are Meru, Aruba, and Cisco. I would like to get input from this group on some pros and cons of each, or are there other vendors that have been working well? Any input would be helpful. Thanks Chris ********** 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/.
