Steve, That figure sounds high. I would expect no DOAs on enterprise APs. We are an Aruba shop and do not remember any APs failing that early. We currently have over 1500 802.11n APs deployed.
Bruce Osborne Network Engineer - Wireless Team IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bohrer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:49 PM Subject: Typical new AP failure rates? Is ~2% early failures in a batch of APs typical, or should I be concerned about a manufacturing defect or some unknown external factor? We're small enough that we've never before bought more than 15 or 20 new APs at once, so haven't previously had any early failures. However, we've just upgraded our full wifi system, and I have two dead out of 105 APs after a couple weeks. Not DOA, but they ran each ran for several days, and then went of line. They're obviously still under warranty, so all I can do is wait and see how widespread this problem will be, but I'm not sure how much to worry! Hopefully after failures during initial burn-in, the rest of the APs will all last a long time. A few basic Google attempts didn't yield stats for initial and longer-term enterprise AP failure rates, so I'm curious about what you bigger schools experience, and how much variation there is by model and vendor. Are 3x3 and ac radios more failure prone than simpler, perhaps cooler running, gear? I generally expect some APs to fail every once in a while, but as far as I know, no vendor has a reputation of being much better or worse than the rest. If those of you who've been buying thousands of APs for years have data you can share, we may get at least an anecdotal feel for typical failure rates, and perhaps a sense of variation by vendor and product. Thanks, Steve Bohrer Network Admin, ITS Bard College at Simon's Rock ********** 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/.
