FYI, the Foundry IronPoint Mobility series is actually Meru. Nathan Nathan P. Hay Network Engineer Computer Services Cedarville University www.cedarville.edu ( http://www.cedarville.edu/ )
>>> Chris Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/30/2007 12:57 PM >>> Portland Community College is a Foundry Networks' shop with all of our network (sans border routing and firewall/vpn services) running on their equipment. This also includes wireless. We have not yet implemented their IronPoint Mobility series of 802.11n-compatible, controller-based access points, but we have had numerous technical presentations/discussions about them with our SE. We still have individual (non-controller-based) Foundry access points in place, but are looking to replace them in the future with a controller-based solution, also likely from Foundry). My personal opinion from the literature, discussions, and presentations, is that Foundry would be a good choice. The best advice or recommendation I can offer is to make contact with them and evaluate their product. I would be interested in hearing about the experience. Chris Gauthier, CCNA, Network+, A+ Network Administration Team Portland Community College Portland, Oregon "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." --Leonardo da Vinci Mark Berman wrote: Hi all, We are using Cisco's WCS and controller infrastructure for our wireless LAN. We've had a number of frustrations with it (most of which have been documented on this list by one or another of you all). We are a small school with limited staff and are finding that managing the Airespace (I mean Cisco) wireless system is taking more staff time than we anticipated. So: With the upcoming advent of 802.11n, which would require replacing all our APs, we are taking the opportunity to revisit our choice of platform. The second place vendor response to our RFP a few years ago was Meru. I was very impressed with their technology but unsure of their longevity as a company. Now they seem to be doing very well and are doing cool things with 11n as well as the older standards. I have two questions: 1) Does anyone know of anyone other than Meru that's doing anything innovative with enterprise wireless? (My take is that Cisco, Aruba, Chantry, Trapeze, etc. are basically the same technology with slightly different feature-sets and interface). 2) Does anyone using Meru have anything negative to say about them? I've talked to several campuses using Meru and they all seem very happy. Somebody must have had a bad experience! What technological gotchas have you run into? What didn't pan out the way you expected from the sales hype? Thanks, - Mark -- Mark Berman, Director for Networks & Systems Williams College, OIT, Jesup Hall Williamstown, MA. 01267 413-597-2092 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
