RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

2011-04-13 Thread Matt Ashfield
In terms of pros/cons with going to Open-Source over Commercial for VOIP,
what should we be looking at?

I'm extremely hesitant to base this critical infrastructure on open-source,
although Asterisk seems like a mature product.



-Original Message-
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tristan Rhodes
Sent: April 12, 2011 7:12 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

I wanted to share that there is an open source VOIP platform that is trying
to gain support from higher education.   While Asterisk is the name everyone
thinks of when you say open source VOIP, SipXecs also has a lot of
potential.

http://www.sipfoundry.org/edu

This software is open source and is based on code from Pingtel - Nortel -
Avaya. .  There is a commercial support option if desired.  

Cheers,

Tristan Rhodes 


 On 4/11/2011 at 11:02 PM, in message
34290C190E29AC4F80265452112026A645FBFE8724@exchange.computer-business.local
,
Jamie A. Stapleton jstaple...@computer-business.com wrote:
 Have you seen that Open Source is 18 Percent of PBX Market according to 
 http://www.easternmanagement.com/.
 
 
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Kaftan
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:55 PM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU 
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?
 
 We are in the process.  But have just begun.  We will be looking at Avaya 
 and Shortel but I am also interested in Asterisk and Microsoft's offering.

 Has anyone deployed either Asterisk or Microsoft?
 
 Perhaps this thread should jump over to Netman.  Is there a VOIP list?
 
 On 4/5/2011 6:44 PM, Fishel Erps wrote:
 Matt,
 We have been running on a new VOIP implementation for 9 
 months now.  I'd be happy to speak to you or anyone else on this list
about 
 our experience/process.  Feel free to reach out to me off-list by any
method 
 below.
 ___
 ___
 Fishel Erps
 Sr. Network  Infrastructure Engineer
 School of Visual Arts
 LL:   212-592-2416
 Cell: 646-201-2766
 Fax:  732-626-6532
 E-Mail: fe...@sva.edumailto:fe...@sva.edu
 ! _ p
 ___
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 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:56
 To: 

WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

 
 Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?
 Hi
 We're looking into doing  VOIP on our campus, and are trying to gather
some 
 information. Given this list is a Higher Ed list, I thought I'd try here.
I 
 am wondering if anyone on this list has already implemented VOIP on their 
 campus and are willing to talk briefly off-line from this list about it.
If 
 so, please let me know.
 
 Thanks!
 Matt Ashfield
 Network Analyst
 ITS - Communications and Network Services
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RE: off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

2011-04-13 Thread Kellogg, Brian D.
We looked at community support, stability, and ease of integration with our 
other VoIP equipment.  We looked at FreeSWITCH, sipXecs, and Asterisk when 
looking for a voicemail/IVR/Conference calling system, but felt that Asterisk 
was the better fit for us as its online community and information seems much 
larger.  So far the various discussion boards I've posted on have been very 
helpful.  There is support that can be purchased for Asterisk as well directly 
through Digium or other third parties.

Asterisk does garner complaints on various postings for deadlocks.  This was 
the one complaint I found that caused some concern.  

SipXecs does look very good and very promising for a complete phone system 
though as it has complete failover/redundancy support.  

We look for opportunities to save money and improve service with Open source 
initiatives where systems are not deemed absolutely critical.  


Thanks,
Brian


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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Ashfield
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:22 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

In terms of pros/cons with going to Open-Source over Commercial for VOIP,
what should we be looking at?

I'm extremely hesitant to base this critical infrastructure on open-source,
although Asterisk seems like a mature product.



-Original Message-
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tristan Rhodes
Sent: April 12, 2011 7:12 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

I wanted to share that there is an open source VOIP platform that is trying
to gain support from higher education.   While Asterisk is the name everyone
thinks of when you say open source VOIP, SipXecs also has a lot of
potential.

http://www.sipfoundry.org/edu

This software is open source and is based on code from Pingtel - Nortel -
Avaya. .  There is a commercial support option if desired.  

Cheers,

Tristan Rhodes 


 On 4/11/2011 at 11:02 PM, in message
34290C190E29AC4F80265452112026A645FBFE8724@exchange.computer-business.local
,
Jamie A. Stapleton jstaple...@computer-business.com wrote:
 Have you seen that Open Source is 18 Percent of PBX Market according to 
 http://www.easternmanagement.com/.
 
 
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Kaftan
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:55 PM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU 
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?
 
 We are in the process.  But have just begun.  We will be looking at Avaya 
 and Shortel but I am also interested in Asterisk and Microsoft's offering.

 Has anyone deployed either Asterisk or Microsoft?
 
 Perhaps this thread should jump over to Netman.  Is there a VOIP list?
 
 On 4/5/2011 6:44 PM, Fishel Erps wrote:
 Matt,
 We have been running on a new VOIP implementation for 9 
 months now.  I'd be happy to speak to you or anyone else on this list
about 
 our experience/process.  Feel free to reach out to me off-list by any
method 
 below.
 ___
 ___
 Fishel Erps
 Sr. Network  Infrastructure Engineer
 School of Visual Arts
 LL:   212-592-2416
 Cell: 646-201-2766
 Fax:  732-626-6532
 E-Mail: fe...@sva.edumailto:fe...@sva.edu
 ! _ p
 ___
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Ashfield
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:56
 To: 

WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

 
 Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?
 Hi
 We're looking into doing  VOIP on our campus, and are trying to gather
some 
 information. Given this list is a Higher Ed list, I thought I'd try here.
I 
 am wondering if anyone on this list has already implemented VOIP on their 
 campus and are willing to talk briefly off-line from this list about it.
If 
 so, please let me know.
 
 Thanks!
 Matt Ashfield
 Network Analyst
 ITS - Communications and Network Services
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MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Randy Ethridge
I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running 
MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you run into ? 

Thanks. 

Randy Ethridge 
Network Engineer V 
Information Services 
Eastern Illinois University 
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Barber, Matt
Hi Randy,

Morrisville has been a happy Meru customer since 2007. We have over 800 AP320s 
blanketing the entire campus. We were their first 11n customer on a new 
controller platform, so we had our share of bugs, but Meru helped us through 
them years ago.

I’d be happy to answer any specific questions or give more details on or off 
list, if you like.

Take care!

Matt Barber
Network and Systems Manager
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053

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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:51 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running 
MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you run into ?

Thanks.

Randy Ethridge
Network Engineer V
Information Services
Eastern Illinois University
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel Eklund
Randy, 

We have about 1100 AP320s right now and are installing a few hundred more over 
the next month or two. We have been very happy with this system. There have 
been no major issues and everything has worked as advertised. There have been 
minor issues, as there are with every product, but they've been responsive in 
dealing with them. 

-- 
Daniel Eklund 
Director, Networking 
Wayne State University 
313-577-5558 


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I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running 
MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you run into ? 

Thanks. 

Randy Ethridge 
Network Engineer V 
Information Services 
Eastern Illinois University 
rlethri...@eiu.edu 

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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Johnson, Neil M
We have ~2300 APs on campus and are satisfied with the system.   
There's some functionality (VLAN pooling, Native IPv6 support) that we  
would like to see in the product.


-Neil


--
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Information Technology Services
The University of Iowa
Work: 319 384-0938
Mobile: 319 540-2081
Fax: 319 355-2618
E-mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu

On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Randy Ethridge wrote:

I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is  
anyone running MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems  
have you run into ?


Thanks.

Randy Ethridge
Network Engineer V
Information Services
Eastern Illinois University
rlethri...@eiu.edu

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

2011-04-13 Thread Kellogg, Brian D.
Thanks that is comforting to hear.  The deadlocking issues I read about were 
the only things that caused me to worry when placing this in production for our 
Voicemail, IVR, and Conferencing solution.  But they have been up for 8 months 
without any reported issues plus it is saving us a good amount of cash each 
year.  We started testing with AsteriskNOW 1.5 a year ago and that is what we 
have in production now and are quite happy with it.  Integration with 
Callmanager was very simple.  We run all three services in a VMware ESXi 4 
environment.


Thanks for sharing your experience,
Brian


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From: Tim Pozar [mailto:po...@lns.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:53 AM
To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
Cc: Kellogg, Brian D.
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

Just my $0.02 on Asterisk.  I have put in a couple of dozen
installations of Asterisk instances for small to medium size enterprise
companies.  I also manage and develop applications that use Asterisk for
the base platform.  The former are typically Trixbox installs as it is a
nicely developed product that is free (CE) and can be supported by
Fonality as well as other consultants when I get run over by a truck.
The GUI can be used by most jr. sysadmins to continue to maintain the
box.  Typically, I will install the system and walk away as they can
support it themselves.

For the applications I develop, the asterisk install is the base
asterisk code with AGI or some other scripting on top of it.  Asterisk
is very flexible with its APIs.

In both scenarios, we have instances where the servers are getting hit
with 10s or 100s of concurrent calls, VM etc.  I have yet to run into a
problem with dead locking.  I did run into one bug with an early 1.4
instance were I wasn't getting a ringing sound back when calling out to
two numbers at the same time.  Upgrading to a more current 1.4 resolved
that and was identified in the CHANGES document.

Asterisk is pretty mature.  I know of large call centers that rely on it
and push 100s of thousands of calls a day through systems.   There are
well known instances of Asterisk being used for various free
conferencing systems out there as well.  I would continue to recommend
it to customers looking to lowering their costs for phone systems.

Tim

on 4/13/11 6:49 AM Kellogg, Brian D. said the following:
 We looked at community support, stability, and ease of integration with our 
 other VoIP equipment.  We looked at FreeSWITCH, sipXecs, and Asterisk when 
 looking for a voicemail/IVR/Conference calling system, but felt that Asterisk 
 was the better fit for us as its online community and information seems much 
 larger.  So far the various discussion boards I've posted on have been very 
 helpful.  There is support that can be purchased for Asterisk as well 
 directly through Digium or other third parties.
 
 Asterisk does garner complaints on various postings for deadlocks.  This was 
 the one complaint I found that caused some concern.  
 
 SipXecs does look very good and very promising for a complete phone system 
 though as it has complete failover/redundancy support.  
 
 We look for opportunities to save money and improve service with Open source 
 initiatives where systems are not deemed absolutely critical.  
 
 
 Thanks,
 Brian
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Ashfield
 Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:22 AM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: off-topic: does anyone do voip ?
 
 In terms of pros/cons with going to Open-Source over Commercial for VOIP,
 what should we be looking at?
 
 I'm extremely hesitant to base this critical infrastructure on open-source,
 although Asterisk seems like a mature product.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tristan Rhodes
 Sent: April 12, 2011 7:12 PM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?
 
 I wanted to share that there is an open source VOIP platform that is trying
 to gain support from higher education.   While Asterisk is the name everyone
 thinks of when you say open source VOIP, SipXecs also has a lot of
 potential.
 
 http://www.sipfoundry.org/edu
 
 This software is open source and is based on code from Pingtel - Nortel -
 Avaya. .  There is a commercial support option if desired.  
 
 Cheers,
 
 Tristan Rhodes 
 
 
 On 4/11/2011 at 11:02 PM, in message
 34290C190E29AC4F80265452112026A645FBFE8724@exchange.computer-business.local
 ,
 Jamie A. Stapleton jstaple...@computer-business.com wrote:
 Have you seen that Open Source is 18 Percent of PBX Market according to 
 http://www.easternmanagement.com/.

 
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Hammond, James T.S.
Winthrop University uses MERU and is pleased with the choice.  Let me know if 
you want contact info for our engineering folks.

 

James Hammond

Associate Vice President, IT

Winthrop University

 

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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:51 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

 

I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running 
MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you run into ?

Thanks.

Randy Ethridge
Network Engineer V
Information Services
Eastern Illinois University
rlethri...@eiu.edu

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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Greg Schuman

Randy,

Franklin and Marshall College uses the Meru system. We have over 500  
APs in production. We are very happy with the system. Feel free to  
contact me directly if you would like more information.


Greg



On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Randy Ethridge wrote:

I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone  
running MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you  
run into ?


Thanks.

Randy Ethridge
Network Engineer V
Information Services
Eastern Illinois University
rlethri...@eiu.edu

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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Simpson
A couple years ago we tested Meru, Aruba and Cisco wireless out in one of our 
buildings to see which system would best fit our environment.  During the Meru 
test we had a serious failure caused by a bug in the code.  Later I found out 
there was a work around, but as a result of that I had the pleasure of having 
the worst support experience I've ever had.  It may have just been poor luck 
but that was enough to take them out of the running for me.  I was assured by 
the sales team that if we went with Meru we would have immediate access to 
their US based support with immediate escalation but I've seen too many sales 
promises fall by the wayside once the purchase has gone through.
 
Michael Simpson
Network Engineer 
Utah Valley University

 Randy Ethridge rlethri...@eiu.edu 4/13/2011 8:50 AM 
I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running 
MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you run into ?

Thanks.

Randy Ethridge
Network Engineer V
Information Services
Eastern Illinois University
rlethri...@eiu.edu 

Proud to say I am EIU 

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Frank Bulk
I was told by our local college last year already that Meru doesn't support
IPv6 -- is that still the case?

Frank

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Johnson, Neil M
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:07 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

We have ~2300 APs on campus and are satisfied with the system.   
There's some functionality (VLAN pooling, Native IPv6 support) that we  
would like to see in the product.

-Neil


-- 
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Network Engineer
Information Technology Services
The University of Iowa
Work: 319 384-0938
Mobile: 319 540-2081
Fax: 319 355-2618
E-mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu

On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Randy Ethridge wrote:

 I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is  
 anyone running MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems  
 have you run into ?

 Thanks.

 Randy Ethridge
 Network Engineer V
 Information Services
 Eastern Illinois University
 rlethri...@eiu.edu

 Proud to say I am EIU

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Johnson, Neil M
Meru currently supports IPv6 in bridging only mode, so you lose some of 
Meru's proprietary traffic management features.

In testing I've had issues with SLAAC, but Illinois has not, so your mileage 
may vary. I haven't tested it since version 3.6 of their code.

Our campus is currently routing IPv6 everywhere and plans are under way to IPv6 
enable more services (we plan to participate in World IPv6 Day by enabling  
records for our Microsoft servers), so I'm getting asked every week when IPv6 
will be supported on wireless.

Meru understands that IPv6 support is a priority and they do have a roadmap for 
IPv6 support, but I think I'm under a NDA about that.

-Neil

-- 
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Network Engineer
Information Technology Services
The University of Iowa
319 384-0938
neil-john...@uiowa.edu 


 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk
 Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:08 AM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless
 
 I was told by our local college last year already that Meru doesn't
 support
 IPv6 -- is that still the case?
 
 Frank
 
 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Johnson, Neil
 M
 Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:07 AM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless
 
 We have ~2300 APs on campus and are satisfied with the system.
 There's some functionality (VLAN pooling, Native IPv6 support) that we
 would like to see in the product.
 
 -Neil
 
 
 --
 Neil Johnson
 Network Engineer
 Information Technology Services
 The University of Iowa
 Work: 319 384-0938
 Mobile: 319 540-2081
 Fax: 319 355-2618
 E-mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu
 
 On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Randy Ethridge wrote:
 
  I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is
  anyone running MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems
  have you run into ?
 
  Thanks.
 
  Randy Ethridge
  Network Engineer V
  Information Services
  Eastern Illinois University
  rlethri...@eiu.edu
 
  Proud to say I am EIU
 
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread James F Eyrich
We plan on rolling out IPv6 on our secured SSID by at least World IPv6 
day and have been running on a test SSID for several weeks now.

Using RA to assign the addresses.
No issues so far.
We have only tested it on 4.0 MR2.

-jim

On 4/13/2011 11:49 AM, Johnson, Neil M wrote:

Meru currently supports IPv6 in bridging only mode, so you lose some of 
Meru's proprietary traffic management features.

In testing I've had issues with SLAAC, but Illinois has not, so your mileage 
may vary. I haven't tested it since version 3.6 of their code.

Our campus is currently routing IPv6 everywhere and plans are under way to IPv6 
enable more services (we plan to participate in World IPv6 Day by enabling  
records for our Microsoft servers), so I'm getting asked every week when IPv6 
will be supported on wireless.

Meru understands that IPv6 support is a priority and they do have a roadmap for 
IPv6 support, but I think I'm under a NDA about that.

-Neil



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