From a vendor perspective, Eje is right. StarOS has gone through a lot of weird stages that lead to alienation of their vendors, and ended up settling on a situation where it has a limited number of vendors.
From an operators perspective, the software is fantastic. The wireless drivers are rock solid, it has a few unique features that give it substantial advantages over the other platforms in specific situations and it uses a lot of linux-standard code. This last element is a big advantage in my book, because all of the good documentation and deployment methods already in place for Linux systems applies to StarOS. That negates a lot of the need for StarOS specific documentation. I think that it is the best platform for a standards based wireless deployment, although a lot of people prefer Mikrotik. I have tried Mikrotik on some fairly large deployments and ended up switching back simply because we were getting better results with StarOS. As far as support - the forum is your best bet for support. However, there are occasional training sessions, including one this month on the 24-25th in Las Vegas. Disclaimer: I will be one of the trainers. Matt Larsen inventivemedia.net [email protected] wrote: > Uhm. Is Cisco not a real manufacturer? Don't you have to pay for design work > and training classes and that with them or pay for advanced support there? > If you want free support then you could look at things like Dlink or Linksys. > You have free support there directly from the manufacturer. > Last I heard from StarOS they where a 2 people team doing sales and software > development and selling OEM hardware. Some people love their software but > some dislike them much. They changed code base three times. Most support you > will get you will find in their forums or on mailing list such as this one. > If they have hired on some more and actually trying to get out of the > "garage" then we might consider them as a real alternative but when they > started selling hardware and become direct competitor and basically gave away > their software with hardware sales we stopped support them and sell their > products. Never good when a "manufacturer" start directly compete with > resellers and distributors. > > /Eje > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Jerry Richardson" <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:51:20 > To: WISPA General List<[email protected]> > Subject: [WISPA] StarOS/Valemount > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
