Count me in as well on Juniper. Currently 680 AP's spread over 7 buildings in 3 cities, 2 HA controller pairs in each city. Average we have > 7000 concurrent users. "It just works" ! Firmware upgrades are a no-brainer, Q&A process is firmly in place, they are conservative on adding new features and let poor network admins take out the quirks in the field. I also like the CLI with which you can see / tshoot a single user session / AP. Ringmaster is a great piece of network management software one of the best I've seen sofar (and I have seen many in the past 14 years ... (HPOV, LMS etc.etc)
Best regards, Kees >>> Frank Sweetser <[email protected]> 11-3-2013 21:52 >>> +1 for the Juniper gear. We're currently at about 650 APs (mostly the 532 3x3 stream AP, with the last legacy ones slated to be replaced this summer) and three 2800 controllers. Just two more points to add: - RingMaster is slated to be replaced by the not-yet-released Network Director tool, which runs on Junos Space, though not any time soon. The last guess I heard was they didn't expect feature parity for a few more years, and would keep maintaining RingMaster for now. You can see talks about it (along with other tidbits and their wireless) on their wireless field day videos: http://techfieldday.com/appearance/juniper-presents-at-wireless-field-day-4/ - If you're using a controller cluster, and have n+1 redundancy, the hitless upgrade works beautifully. If you have enough AP coverage redundancy, you can potentially do a full upgrade without any of your connected clients even noticing that you did anything. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 3/11/2013 3:55 PM, Daniel Westacott wrote: > Hi Educause: > > We here at Minnesota (Twin Cities and Morris) are a pretty large > Juniper (Used to be Trapeze wireless) shop. > We are also a Cisco shop. > > 35 MX-2800 contollers > 5000 access points, all 802.11n > 20,000 peak users. > > How are the reporting features? > Always been pretty good, hugely improved lately. > > Is the interface easy to use? > Ringmaster is a Java thing, so there are some java\apple issues to > deal with for admins with apple. If you are running the ringmaster > tool you will need java. Even if apple things it should not run java > at all. > > Are upgrades easy? > Very easy. We do vet everything (switches, routers, wireless) before deploying. > > 802.11ac early support? > Nothing shipping yet. > > What are your experiences with support? > Great. > > How expensive? > Reasonable, it was very much cheaper than the Cisco proposal. > > How does it compare with Cisco’s offerings? > Not sure about the current cisco lineup, but it was a little ahead of > Cisco when we bought. > The RF planning tool works well for us. > Cisco had some issues with the scale of our plant, but I suspect they > have fixed that by now. > The Diagnostics are very extensive. > > /daniel/ > daniel westacott > University of Minnesota > Twin Cities Campus. > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Joshua Strohschein > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings to all, >> >> >> >> We are considering a wireless refresh for our campus and would appreciate >> some vendor recommendations. While we currently are a Cisco shop, that does >> not necessarily mean we will be in the future. >> >> >> >> Here is our current setup: >> >> >> >> 1. 3x Cisco 4404 controllers >> >> 2. Approx 150 APs. Mixture of 1142n and 3502i models >> >> 3. Average 1500 devices at peak hours >> >> >> >> We have two options. Upgrade our Cisco gear or choose a different vendor. So >> who do you like and why? >> >> >> >> Here are the main points that we’d like to know: >> >> >> >> 1. How are the reporting features? >> >> 2. Is the interface easy to use? >> >> 3. Are upgrades easy? >> >> 4. 802.11ac early support? >> >> 5. What are your experiences with support? >> >> 6. How expensive? >> >> 7. How does it compare with Cisco’s offerings? >> >> >> >> Note: This project does not include our dorms, this is handled by a third >> party. >> >> >> >> Any other valuable insights are welcome! >> >> >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >> >> >> Joshua Strohschein >> >> Network Analyst >> >> The University of Texas at Tyler >> >> >> >> >> >> ********** 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/. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: The following conditions apply to this e-mail: http://emaildisclaimer.avans.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
