[180414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WiFi courses/vendors recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Tasioulis)
Tue Jun 2 05:28:14 2015
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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:18:31 +0300
From: George Tasioulis <george.tasioulis@gmail.com>
To: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
> Doubt how much PoE you'd use for the MetroWifi stuff, but for the
> "small/medium events Wifi coverage":
>
> Ubiquiti Networks.
>>>
>>> Its cheap and it works great. Support sucks though.
>>>
>>
> Just watch it here if you're expecting to plug UniFi APs into standard
> 802.3af/at ports and get power. When I last interacted with them (customer
> equipment; year or two old, I believe) a lot of their WAPs are 24V, not
> 802.3af/at.
Only their UniFi AP & AP-LR are 24V, all the rest of their product line
(AP-PRO, AP-AC as well as the outdoor units) are 802.3af or 802.3at
compliant.
You can easily overcome this limitation by using their 8-port ToughSwitch
were each POE port can be configured to either 24V or 48V.
IMHO Ubiquity's UniFi is a very decent solution when you want to keep
budget low.
- G.
