[166909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mos)
Tue Nov 19 13:58:36 2013
From: Seth Mos <seth.mos@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <BLU180-W90FEB28A006AFDA2ABE4C2C9E70@phx.gbl>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:57:47 +0100
To: Hank Disuko <gourmetcisco@hotmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Op 19 nov 2013, om 18:25 heeft Hank Disuko het volgende geschreven:
> Hi folks,=20
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> I've traditionally been a Cisco Catalyst shop for my switching gear.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I know Meraki hardcores were upset when Cisco acquired them, but not =
exactly sure why.
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> 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=
