The licensing issue used to bother me more than it does now. I saw this presented as "you wouldn't let the service contract expire on a production device anyway, would you?" and relaxed my stance on it. I do understand the idea of the device becoming a paperweight should the company go out of business or the product is not discontinued, so I'm not 100% comfortable with it yet. It's definitely no longer a non-starter for me, though.
Matthew Topper From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Opinions on the Best wireless - Meraki | Ruckus | Cisco | Aruba | other? You should be able to get a Meraki pretty easy for free by "attending" an online seminar. That said Meraki has a licensing issue, at least to me, that requires you to keep the license paid or they shutdown the AP. If you are willing to go that route then having control web based (outside web site that they own) is nice. Reports they generate can be customized to some degree, and their web site will report when you have an outage to email and maybe SMS. A nice touch to this is you can turn on a separate VLAN just for guests that have different connection keys. Jon ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Opinions on the Best wireless - Meraki | Ruckus | Cisco | Aruba | other? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:46:13 +0000 I'm shopping for a new internal wireless solution and was wondering if anyone here has opinions on what's the best gear right now. I've been looking at traditional Cisco gear(55xx controllers, 37xx APs), Meraki, Ruckus, and Aruba is on my list to look at. Everything seems to have pluses and minuses. Does anyone have opinions on what gear they like, what to avoid? Thanks, Jon [cid:[email protected]] Jon Derrenbacker | CISSP | Sr. Systems Engineer | Manager | Keiter 4401 Dominion Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Glen Allen, VA 23060 phone: 804-273-6221 | fax: 804-747-3632 | keitercpa.com<http://www.keitercpa.com/> Encrypted File Upload<https://keitercpa.sharefile.com/r/rff820ebe11a43e38> Experience | Knowledge | Relationships | Insight Unless the above message ("this message") expressly provides that the statements contained therein and in any attachments thereto ("the statements") are intended to constitute written tax advice within the meaning of IRS Circular 230 ยง 10.37, the sender intends by this message to communicate general information for discussion purposes only, and you should not, therefore, interpret the statements to be written tax advice or rely on the statements for any purpose. The sender will conclude that you have understood and acknowledged this important cautionary notice unless you communicate to the sender any questions you may have in a direct electronic reply to this message. Note: This communication, including any attachments, may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe you have received this communication in error, do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information contained within. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
