Lee,
While it may seem I'm a bit of a Meru junkie of late it's because
I've been so impressed by their system. Having just participated in the 2nd
Western NY Meru Users group this past week I can tell you that aside from
some occasional work to make various 802.1x supplicants and various RADIUS
servers interoperate I haven't heard of a single Meru rollout "issue" that
wasn't overcome.
We are running over 200 access points now in a data environment with
the only issues we see being caused by old wireless drivers on clients at
this stage. Some bugs we ran into were fixed early on in the 3.0 code (such
as a situation where only 128 802.1x clients could authenticate, or where
rogue AP mitigation was taking too much airtime).
While I'm not in a mixed voice-data environment I've seen the test
results and know of too many clients doing just that. This sounds like FUD
to me because it is what the Meru system was designed to excel at. While
there are limits to bandwidth in any system, proper architecture and
planning can solve most issues. These issues are more easily planned for
with Meru.
I would be happy to discuss the Meru architecture and strategy from
an end-user perspective with anyone who may be interested.
Cheers,
Mike
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Michael Ruiz
Network and Systems Engineer
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Badman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru question
I recently entertained one of the leading wireless vendors, and the topic of
Meru came up. I mentioned that it seemed Meru had a growing fan club, and
thus vendor's engineer said that there are a lot of horror stories with Meru
rollouts as well. It was presented that Meru's unique approach works quite
well with voice-only deployments, but often falters where voice and data are
mixed in the WLAN. So- in the name of figuring out fact from fiction-
wondering if anyone can bear this out one way or the other. (I will be
visiting with Meru soon, will ask them directly as well.)
Be happy to take responses off the list if it's more appropriate.
Regards-
Lee
Lee Badman
Network Engineer
CWNA, CWSP
Information Technology and Services
(Formerly Computing and Media Services)
Syracuse University
(315) 443-3003
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