Mark, I just stumbled across the mention of a company named Extricom in the October 29, 2007 issue of Information Week. In the article, "The n Factor" by Dave Molta he says "Vendors like Meru and Extricom, which employ sophisticated scheduling algorithms to allocate capacity to clients..." I've never heard of this company before, but apparently they are doing something innovative like Meru. Has anyone heard anything about them? Their website is http://www.extricom.com Nathan Nathan P. Hay Network Engineer Computer Services Cedarville University www.cedarville.edu ( http://www.cedarville.edu/ )
>>> Mark Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/29/2007 4:23 PM >>> 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/.
