Just an FYI, with Aruba OS 5.0+ there is a new licensing model. You buy AP licenses (no more user/ PEF licenses), so you could basically have one AP with 8192 (controller capacity) users on it. I would not recommend this design however :)
Marcelo Lew Wireless Enterprise Administrator University Technology Services University of Denver Desk: (303) 871-6523 Cell: (303) 669-4217 Fax: (303) 871-5900 Email: [email protected] From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Appah Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Bakeoff We have been Aruba from the start, and have deployed N alongside our initial BG with great success.. a nice phased approach! The controllers support 10GBE, the N radios have dual Gig uplinks (we use one for POE and one for GB uplink) This was one of the deciding factors against MERU and Xirrus was that it was all or nothing. Don't get me started on licensing though :) Just my personal .02 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Huels, Chris Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:35 AM 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
