Greetings everyone, It's been a while since I've posted, since my move from academia. I particulary have tried to avoid posting in vendor discussions.
I feel compelled to reply in this thread solely because Jon Freeman, a vendor, has made a post that is innacurate about the way Meru's Air Traffic control works. I've never run a Xirrus or Extricom network so I cannot comment there. If anyone wants more information please contact me, contact Meru or contact the vendor directly . There are lots of end users out there for any product who can comment on their understanding of and their experiences with whatever technology they run. Thanks, MIke - Mike Ruiz, ESSE, ACP, A+ former Network and Systems Engineer for Hobart and William Smith Colleges now Systems Engineer for Meru Networks On 11/1/07, Lelio Fulgenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Saw these guys at Educause...interesting technology...they had dual gigabit > ethernet uplinks with a/b/g upgradeable to n antennas. The interesting part > is they put around 16 antennas into one AP. > > http://www.xirrus.com/ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nathan Hay > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:39 AM > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Innovative technologies > > > 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 > > >>> 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/. > ********** 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/.
