Did you check out ubiquiti's UniFi? -Mike
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 14:13, Glenn Robuck <techraving...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm curious if any of you guys have compared Meraki and Xirrus? We are > currently in the process of picking new WAPs and have narrowed it down to > these too. We are leaning towards Xirrus due to it's modular structure. > It also has a great user interface. > > Anyone else evaluate Xirrus? > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Warren Bailey < > wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote: > >> They give you a free ap for listening to their pitch.. We love them. >> Expensive.. But responsive and responsible.. Which is pretty hard to find >> in Wi-Fi land. Pretty interface and lots of little bells and whistles.. >> They have my vote from what we evaluated (ubnt, Blahblahblah). >> >> >> Sent from my Mobile Device. >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: "Pedersen, Sean" <sean.peder...@usairways.com> >> Date: 11/19/2013 12:00 PM (GMT-09:00) >> To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> >> Subject: RE: Meraki >> >> >> I started to look into them for personal and limited small business use, >> but stopped short when I realized their cloud management platform is >> subscription-based. Unless I've missed something, you cannot deploy your >> own internal management platform. It's all licensed through Meraki/Cisco, >> which means if you lose your Internet connection, you lose management >> access to your gear. That could be a deal-killer in certain environments. >> Maybe someone with more experience on the platform could correct me there. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hank Disuko [mailto:gourmetci...@hotmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:26 AM >> To: NANOG >> Subject: Meraki >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I've traditionally been a Cisco Catalyst shop for my switching gear. >> >> I am doing a significant hardware refresh in one of my offices, which will >> entail replacing about 20 access switches and a couple core devices. >> Pretty simple L3 VLAN environment with VRRP/HSRP, on the physical end I >> have 1G fibre/copper and 10G fibre. My core switch of choice will likely >> be the Cat 4500 series. >> >> I'm considering Cisco's Meraki platform for my access layer and I'm >> looking for deployment stories of folks that have deployed Meraki in the >> past...good/bad/ugly kinda stuff. >> >> I know Meraki hardcores were upset when Cisco acquired them, but not >> exactly sure why. >> >> Anyway, any thoughts would be useful. Thanks! >> >> -Hank >> >> >>
