Meru Question

[Donald R Gallerie]

Here at the University at Albany, we had Meru come in and give us an overview on their wireless offering.   From our vantage point, it does appear that Cisco is pushing the controller-based system so we decided to look at other vendors in this space.  As part of this effort, we asked Cisco to come in and give us an overview of their offering as if they didn’t already have a presence on campus.   One of the items that came up had to do with Meru’s method of distributing timeframes to clients (don’t know if I’m phrasing this correctly).  The Cisco engineers said that Meru’s methodology works well in a Meru-only rollout but that they would negatively impact other, non-Meru access points. Additionally, the said that there is a “bug” in the current 802.11b/g standard that Meru takes advantage of and that it may not be there in future (802.11n) standards.   Not that I would doubt anything Cisco says but has anyone heard any similar remarks or can anyone expand on Cisco’s claims?   Thanks….   Don Gallerie The University at Albany ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.