Thanks for your replies so far. I’ve collected your data so far: [cid:4DAAA493-FF21-414A-ACBA-C5C01B1B5069] Brand Failure Rate per Year Cisco 0.5% Aruba 0.3% Aerohive 0.4% Ruckus 0.6% Juniper 0.7% Extreme 0.0% Xirrus 5.2%
School Brand APs Term Failed Attrition/Year College of Charleston Xirrus 692 1 36 5.2% ? Cisco 1400 1 5 0.4% Culinary Institute Aruba 600 1 1 0.2% University of north Georgia Aerohive 1200 1 5 0.4% Rice University Cisco 1890 1 40 2.1% ? Ruckus 330 1 2 0.6% ? ? 700 4 2 0.1% ? Cisco 1200 1 11 0.9% Austin College Juniper 275 3 6 0.7% Utica College Extreme 315 5 0 0.0% ? Cisco 1900 2 10 0.3% Hogeschool Gent Cisco 550 5 1 0.0% ? Cisco 1200 3 1 0.0% Denison University Aruba 1047 1 5 0.5% Syracuse University Cisco 18000 14 0 0.0% More data points would be helpful, particularly from schools with equipment under-represented above. If anyone else is using Xirrus, I’d like to know if they are seeing as high a failure rate as we are. I’ll update the spreadsheet as more responses are received. Thanks for your participation. -- Jason Trinklein Wireless Engineering Manager College of Charleston 81 St. Philip Street | Office 311D | Charleston, SC 29403 trinkle...@cofc.edu<mailto:trinkle...@cofc.edu> | (843) 300–8009 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> on behalf of Jason Trinklein <trinkle...@cofc.edu<mailto:trinkle...@cofc.edu>> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM To: "WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Access Point Failure Rate I’m curious to know other institutions’ equipment failure rate for access points. School: College of Charleston Brand: Xirrus Access Point Count: 692 RMA Replacements in the last year: 36 Failure rate: 5% What do you observe? -- Jason Trinklein Wireless Engineering Manager College of Charleston 81 St. Philip Street | Office 311D | Charleston, SC 29403 trinkle...@cofc.edu<mailto:trinkle...@cofc.edu> | (843) 300–8009 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.educause.edu_groups_&d=DQMGaQ&c=7MSSWy9Bs2yocjNQzurxOQ&r=AuveJXIorHW4s-aGSHEbnQZt5LubWGCZik-5HxxaRqU&m=g_vjSrxEykXoUs14UNgGG-2OipJlt8RQjCVxnaApjCw&s=QuE8zap6QnvKtaO5vRAp0En3TSdfg_8jsHP7uLlExnc&e=>. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
