+1 for this info. We are a smaller college, less than 200 AP's currently, and are migrating away from an on campus Cisco system to Meraki this summer.
~Blake ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of James Helzerman <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 6:57 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meraki at large universities External Email Hi. Is anyone looking at or currently using Meraki in a large university? I am curious as to how far their product has come after a few years from the Cisco purchase. For sizing purposes I am looking at deployments of 500 or more Meraki APs with 8+ APs in high density auditoriums and/or seat 400-600 students. In particular I am looking for information on: * How many APs total do you have on your campus? * What is the peak number of concurrent connections you have seen on the system? * What is the largest high density area you have covered? How many APs, special settings, models of AP, etc. * What made you choose Meraki over different vendors? * Do you have multiple vendors on your campus? If so which ones? * If you had a controller based infrastructure before, what changes did you have to make to your architecture? How much time did it take to do this, what issues did you run into? * What success stories can you share? * What issues do you see or have had with the product? * How customizable are the settings compared to Cisco or Aruba? * What do you like or dont like about the products and/or architecture? Answers dont need to be long or in depth, I am just gauging adoption at larger universities. If you prefer, feel free to direct message me. Thanks for any input you can provide! -Jimmy -- James Helzerman Wireless Network Engineer University of Michigan - ITS Phone: 734-615-9541 ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
