[166941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Goldbard)
Thu Nov 21 03:23:11 2013
From: Joshua Goldbard <j@2600hz.com>
To: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:22:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20131120.200832.175893208.wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
For what it's worth...
We did a conference, KazooCon, with Meraki Gear and Ubiquiti Access Points.=
I am not a wizard but I set the whole network up except the access points =
which failed to detect at first. I think it took about an hour to setup in =
total; really easy even with the stutter. The network gear was:
2x Meraki Firewall
2x Meraki 48 port switch
4x Ubiquiti APN
Comcast dropped two cable modems in for us, 200Mbps for 2 days of bliss. Th=
e conference network was ridiculous, but all parts held up well. The wifi w=
as fast and the LAN for the SIP phones was perfect. It was kind of overkill=
, but can you ever really have too much bandwidth?
Cheers,
Joshua
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 20, 2013, at 12:12 PM, "William Waites" <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wr=
ote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:08:53 -0500, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> said:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> I've never used the software controller but we use a lot of Ubiquiti
> kit in rural Scotland. We use it mostly in transparent bridge mode
> with more capable routers speaking ethernet - FreeBSD on Soekris boards
> and Mikrotik mostly. In general the RF part is great, but the software
> part is buggy. We have been extensively bitten by transparent bridge
> not being transparent enough and eating multicast packets which of
> course completely hoses OSPF. Using NBMA and being very careful about
> which firmware version mostly works. Don't try to make them do
> anything sophisticated.
>=20
> -w
> --
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>=20
