The other thing that’s going to change is the functionality. Jeff was on the
right track when he talked about vendors with a global presence being better
able to identify bugs, security flaws etc. and promptly diagnose and patch
them. They’re also better positioned to apply machine learning an
One of the difficulties in comparing TCO is around staffing. Both estimating
how much time staff really spend on the current solution, but also taking into
account base salary with benefits. At many colleges, benefits can add another
30%+ to the cost of a person. As such, the elimination (or rea
For cloud to really take over, the costs need to drop. We just went through a
similar thing and are of a similar size (~300 APs), and the cloud on-going OpEx
costs dropped them out of the race. The simplicity of costs budgeting is nice,
but 7 year TCO is no contest.
Where they currently seem to
We are a similar size and are at the tail end of the same project. We replaced
Meraki with Ubiquiti.
Meraki served us well the past five years and I have no complaints. However,
we had a need to massively expand our deployment to really do it right. We
will almost triple the number of AP’s
Chuck has the right idea here. Our respective college strategic missions don’t
mention running servers or wireless controllers as strategic to the mission of
the college. Cloud/SaaS solutions free up folks from the mundane tasks,
allowing them to focus on those higher-up technology layers that c
Go with ArubaLook at the latest Gartner report.
BD
On 5/17/18 2:10 PM, John Rodkey wrote:
Our college - about 40 buildings, 1200 students, 3500 wireless clients
per day, currently 310 WAPs - is considering a major upgrade in WAPs,
replacing a number that are 9 years old and no longer supp
Aruba has one too.
Bruce Osborne
Senior Network Engineer
Network Operations - Wireless
(434) 592-4229
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
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From: Thomas Carter [mailto:tcar...@austincollege.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless Options
Ruckus has
++1 on Aruba
We hit Matt’s first point and worked with Aruba to rectify the issues. Their QA
testing at that time said the 125s were OK but we found out they behave
differently in a real world environment where there is interference. We got an
official apology from QA along with assurances they
I’ve just moved from somewhere that was using Aerohive (~150 AP230s) and we
were happy with it. Roaming and throughput were very solid, troubleshooting is
excellent.
We were doing 802.1x auth breaking out the VLANs locally on the switches but
you can spin up a local VM if you have networks that
Another request that you look at Aruba, you can go down cloud based controller
route with them, or you can mesh up to 64 AP’s into their own virtual
controller if you wanted to organise by areas and the numbers worked for you.
Their AP’s are good, I have never had any trouble with their support,
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