I still get a kick out of this 3 years later, and it's appropriate for this conversation, especially with the controller Brickwall comment.
http://www.aerohive.com/isc (Note for those without a sense of humor This was uploaded by Aerohive on April 1st, 2010) Mike On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote: > I second the Meraki recommendation. But I would expand that to Aerohive > and AirTight as well. The cloud-managed stuff brings huge advantages in > that insanity of controller upgrades (and it is just that) and management > server care and feeding goes away. I run several Meraki sites, and can’t > say enough good about them. I also have a small prod Aerohive deployment, > and an AirTight AP in my lab. As one who runs a very large Cisco deployment > (almost 4K), I’m a firm believer in cloud-managed WiFi as a viable option. > **** > > ** ** > > -Lee Badman**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Hall, Rand > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:06 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone tried Ubiquiti UniFi campus wifi?**** > > ** ** > > If you're willing to consider Ubiquiti you should take a look at Cisco's > Meraki stuff. You may be able to get some trade-in value for your old Cisco > stuff to stay with Cisco. It might make replacing your whole wireless > network within reach.**** > > ** ** > > We have a 450 AP Meraki installation that's great. We added 125 this > summer. It's nice to just keep adding without running into the controller > brick wall (like you've experienced). It doesn't have all of the knobs and > buttons of a Cisco or Aruba--but that doesn't seem like a deal breaker for > you. **** > > ** ** > > > **** > > **** > > Rand**** > > **** > > Rand P. Hall**** > > Director, Network Services askIT!**** > > Merrimack College**** > > 978-837-3532**** > > [email protected]**** > > ** ** > > If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the > problem and one minute finding solutions. – Einstein **** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Steve Bohrer <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > A few months ago there were some generally positive posts about Ubiquiti's > Air Fiber links, but I'm wondering if anyone has tried out their UniFi > controller-less campus wifi solution, particularly with their dual-band > "UniFi Pro AP" and/or their "UniFi AP AC" access points. > > For background, we are a very small college, and currently have an older > Cisco WLC/WPS system, mostly with their A/G APs; though we have "N" in one > building. The hardware limit of our current pair of WLCs is 75 APs, and > we've hit that, so are considering our next step: Expand our Cisco system > with newer gear; or else go to something else for our un-covered buildings, > and have two systems running side-by-side for a while as we transition to > the new system. > > I want to add about 25 APs right now to cover our four main dorms, and I > think our eventual full-coverage, high-density (for small values of > "high"!) deployment might be about 150 APs total. > > Staying with Cisco means upgrading from our WLC 4402s to 5508, which also > means upgrading from WCS to PI, and it is feeling a bit like overkill for > our size. I can't say that I've been heavily using all of the features and > reporting of our current WCS. > > We are having presentations from other vendors, and my Sys Admin > recommended Ubiquiti, and their price is _amazingly_ low. WIth their gear, > we could add the new APs and also replace all of our existing Cisco APs for > significantly less than the cost of adding 25 new Cisco "N" APs+WLC+PI. For > our scale, that is really attractive. > > Part of the cost saving, of course, is that Ubiquiti doesn't have reps and > a sales team and such, so we won't get nearly as whizzy a pitch from > Ubiquiti as we have from the rest of the wifi vendors. Thus, first hand > experiences from other schools that have actually deployed this stuff would > be very useful. > > Thanks for any pros or cons you can share about UniFi. (Feel free to > mention your favorite wifi system as well, if you think it reasonable for > our small scale and budget. From the stuff we've seen so far, I like > Ruckus, Aerohive, and Meru, but don't have much user feedback on any of > them.) > > Steve Bohrer > Network Admin, ITS > Bard College at Simon's Rock > 413-528-7645 > > ********** > 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/.
