[177644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clay Fiske)
Thu Jan 29 13:12:37 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Clay Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:12:23 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACkP6kkPG_HmuR40doy=OFxUKRWipSNmuM-_CpSKBD54xNBOkA@mail.gmail.com>
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Anyone played with/deployed any Mimosa gear? I=92m not a =93real=94 =
wireless guy so I=92ll spare folks any armchair speculation. Just looks =
interesting to me.
-c
On Jan 29, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Steven Miano <mianosm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another hat that I haven't seen thrown in the ring yet is Aerohive.
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> They're great to work with - and the product is decent in terms of
> scalability across geographically locations with management being =
hosted by
> them, or you - as/when needed.
>=20
> Huge list of features and capabilities (from having silly fun with the =
LEDs
> on the units, to 802.1x and WIPS/etc).
>=20
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Paul Nash <paul@nashnetworks.ca> =
wrote:
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>> You can also VLAN allocation through RADIUS. Our setup has a single =
SSID,
>> 250-odd user accounts. User connects to the SSID & authenticates =
with
>> their userid/password and is assigned to their VLAN, which connects =
them to
>> the appropriate DHCP server, gateway, etc.
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>> Makes management and segregation fairly trivial (for non-trivial =
values of
>> trivial :-)).
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>> paul
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>>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Tyler Mills <tylermills@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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>>> Most of the issues are related to firmware. Most of my UBNT =
experience
>> was
>>> with the UAP-Pro and the UAP-AC, and it wasn't a good experience.
>>> Production firmwares seem to be of beta quality.
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>>> For features, they can't compete with Ruckus. One thing I can think =
of
>> off
>>> the top of my head is support for tagging management on its own VLAN =
and
>>> tagging wired traffic onto another. If you were to implement this =
on the
>>> UBNT products you would have to SSH into every single one and =
implement
>> the
>>> features as you would on a linux box, and it might work. Ruckus, =
you
>>> configure the VLAN's how you would want through the Zonedirector or =
the
>>> AP's GUI and it will just work.
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>>> They cost more, but you get what you pay for.
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>>> On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:54:44 AM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> =
wrote:
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>>>> Did you figure out why it was dropping out? All of it dropping out? =
Just
>>>> some APs dropping? Just some users dropping?
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>>>> -----
>>>> Mike Hammett
>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>>> http://www.ics-il.com
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>>>> ----- Original Message -----
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>>>> From: "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org>
>>>> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>, nanog@nanog.org
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:34:46 AM
>>>> Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
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>>>> I had a bad experience with it one time at a tradeshow environment. =
6
>>>> access points setup for public wifi. The radio levels were quite =
good in
>>>> various areas of the tradeshow however traffic would keep dropping =
out
>> at
>>>> random intervals as soon as about 300 users were online. It wasn't =
my
>> idea
>>>> to use UBNT but it definitely turned me off of their product after
>> digging
>>>> into their gear...
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>>>> Again as someone pointed out, for residential and perhaps SOHO
>>>> applications it can probably work well - and in my opinion it's =
priced
>> for
>>>> that market.
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>>>> Paul
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike =
Hammett
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM
>>>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
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>>>> What problems have you had with UBNT?
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>>>> It's zero hand-off doesn't work on unsecured networks, but that's =
about
>>>> the extent of the issues I've heard of other than stadium density
>>>> environments.
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>>>> -----
>>>> Mike Hammett
>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>>> http://www.ics-il.com
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>>>> ----- Original Message -----
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>>>> From: "Manuel Mar=EDn" <mmg@transtelco.net>
>>>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:06:39 PM
>>>> Subject: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
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>>>> Dear nanog community
>>>>=20
>>>> I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with =
APs
>>>> that you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend
>> recommended
>>>> me Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share your =
experience
>> with
>>>> Ruckus or with a similar vendor. My experience with ubiquity for =
this
>> type
>>>> of requirement was not that good.
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>>>> Thank you and have a great day
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