Hey Jason: This is somewhat cruel since you were not here to do the research with OUS and do not know that PROXIM was the market leader. Now you have put your voice out there as 'OIT'. I was going to respond to this -- but now cannot because it will look like you and I are having a cat fight. By the way, we changed from PROXIM to HP because PROXIM is competing in the 802.16 air space. We might have gone with Cisco, but you said you liked the HP and its price; Andy has some bad experiences with things called Cisco, other than edge routers and switches and firewalls--devices he does like the performance of. Xirrus and Aruba are 'managed systems.' If we have ARUBA (which Andy is against, at this moment, even though I have told him that we need to look at ARUBA when OIT needs a total mobility solution, which we feel is 3-5 years away) you not only will not get to manage the equipment, you will not get to pick the radio color. Are you feeling better...there is a rumor going around that you are really sick. You cannot be sick; we need you! Agnes --
________________________________ From: Jason Appah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Feedback needed for WiFi manufacturers We have looked at and are currently using HP Procurve 420, and Proxim/Orinoco 4000 AP the HP Procurves are great midrange devices, the proxim was deployed before I started with this university, and I am not pleased at all with it. on paper the proxim have a great feature set unfortunatley I found that lackluster documentation and command line issues left me wanting. really if you do deploy these the best way to manage them is via airwave. I dont reccomend them. the HP procurves are comptitively priced, intuituve in their design and implementation, however they dont quite have the feature set that I am looking for , e.g. aruba switched wireless or xirrus We are starting to look at the xirrus as a means to deploy in environs were we dont want to pay to (re) cable.. Has anyone used their solutions? Jason Appah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Services Systems Administrator / Network Analyst II Oregon Institute of Technology SAN GIAC Silver, MCP Active Directory, Security+ ________________________________ From: Scott Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 12/6/2007 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Feedback needed for WiFi manufacturers For years we have been a Cisco and Vivato WiFi shop. I am now being asked to evaluate other WiFi manufacturers. In the past I've looked at 3com, Lucent, and Symbol. However, that's been over 7 years ago at this point. So I'm wanting any feedback for other types of WiFi other Universities are currently utilizing, pros and cons, and even ones in the past you may have used. I started looking at Colubris, Xirrus, and Symbol as those are the ones specifically I was asked to look at. However, I'm just wanting to see what other options there may be, besides Cisco. -- Scott Smith Network Engineering Services Southern Illinois University Carbondale [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********** 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/.
