I'm very interested in other user experiences with Ubiquity for smaller deployments vs. traditional Cisco APs and WLC. Especially for a collection of rural areas. The price point and software controller are very attractive.
Anyone running a centralized controller for a lot of remote sites? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Seth Mos <seth....@dds.nl> wrote: > > Op 19 nov 2013, om 18:25 heeft Hank Disuko het volgende geschreven: > > > 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! > > We used to use the 3Com wireless kit before it became H3C, and then HP, > which worked ok but the engrish in the UI was horrid. > > We've since purchased 25 Ubiquity wireless access points, specifically the > 300N Pro access points, they work really well, pricing is competitive > priced and the management is nice. > > I've setup a Debian VM, installed their management software from their APT > repo and just go from there. The version 3 software also supports > multi-site which is really nice. > > It's a huge upgrade over our previous wireless though. > > Cheers, > Seth > -- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531 MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net
