I had around a 2% failure rate with Aruba, DOA or shortly after. So far no failures with first Aerohive batch of 75 AP's.
Jake Barros | Network Administrator | Office of Information Technology Grace College and Seminary | Winona Lake, IN | 574.372.5100 x6178 On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Steve Bohrer <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/.
