Go with Aruba....Look at the latest Gartner report.
BD
On 5/17/18 2:10 PM, John Rodkey wrote:
Our college - about 40 buildings, 1200 students, 3500 wireless clients
per day, currently 310 WAPs - is considering a major upgrade in WAPs,
replacing a number that are 9 years old and no longer supported.
We could replace with the latest model of our existing vendor, but
want to consider all the feasible alternatives. We have a hard
requirement that the controller be cloud-based, the system deal well
with Mac clients, understand VLANs and an enterprise quality network,
and have a rich set of configuration, logging, monitoring, and
troubleshooting tools for dealing both with clients and access points.
Responsive support is also required, and unsurprisingly total system
cost is a significant issue.
3 vendors come to mind: Meraki, Ubiquiti, and Aerohive.
Questions:
1) do other vendors come to mind that play well in this space?
2) what are your positive experiences with any of the above?
3) what are your negative experiences?
4) have you recently gone through this analysis, and if so, what were
your conclusions?
5) what issues have you experienced with PoE capacity requirements
with these devices?
John Rodkey
Director of Servers and Networks
Westmont College
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