[181330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jun 20 19:22:37 2015
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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
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> Ive used Xirrus for a few festivals and hack-a-thons and they worked great.
>
> Ive also used UBNT UniFi with great success at numerous events, mainly at
> the old SF Mint (completely made out of Granite and concrete) and RF
> penetration was awesome.
>
> Cisco is nothing to write home about and is over priced. Ive never used
> Ruckus but it looks to be expensive for what it does.
>
> I'd stick with UBNT and Xirrus.
having been in the back seat for many deployments over the years with
all sorts of kit, i have seen great and reliable pretty large
deployments of all of the above (well, xirrus only once). i have seen
embarrassing messes with all of the above. i have concluded that the
critical component is the engineer.
randy
