[156269] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dylan Bouterse)
Thu Sep 13 16:20:44 2012
From: Dylan Bouterse <dylan@corp.power1.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:19:38 +0000
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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshbaird@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:03 PM
To: Donald Eastlake
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks
We have been using Unifi (a Ubiquiti WIFI product) for local conventions an=
d festivals. The product is fairly cheap, robust, and their access points =
have very good range. We have deployed it at several commercial businesses=
as well with great success. The deployment is very easy. We run the cont=
roller on a VM at our NOC, but you can also run it locally at the event as =
well.
Besides this, we have a fairly beefy box that handles DNS and DHCP and basi=
c firewalling.
Josh
The UniFi line is hard to beat for the price. The controller software is fr=
ee and the base access points are <$100, in fact you can get a 3-pack for =
<$200. Deployment of the APs would be 95% of the work. Configuration via th=
e software would take minutes.
Dylan
