Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

["Lewis, Mitchell T." <mlewis () techcompute net>]

"If you choose not to renew, your Meraki systems will cease to provide network access on February 28, 2015."


I find that interesting as it is my understanding (confirmed by Meraki
documents the last I knew) the Meraki Cloud's functionality is carried
out on the control domain & does not have any involvement in packet
forwarding(my limited testing with Meraki equipment confirmed this). I
knew that access to change configuration might disappear but, I was not
aware that the data plane could be interrupted as well. That is a
excellent item for me to investigate further as I have investigated
Meraki as a solution in the past.

On a side note, those of you in this situation described below-you may
want to take a peek at this:
https://meraki.cisco.com/support/#policies:gpl . Does not provide an
"enterprise" solution but never the less may get you out of a jam if
needed until replacement equipment can be purchased etc.


        

Mitchell T. Lewis

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On 02/01/2015 08:51 PM, Eric C. Miller wrote:
> That's it. Step 1, buy the equipment at full price. Step 2, pay for the cloud management license, yearly. Step 3, no 
> extended warranty option, so pay full price if equipment from step one fails. 
>
> We just dumped our meraki deployment because of it:
>
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> > Dear Helpdesk, 
> > Thank you for being a valued Meraki customer. Our records show that your Meraki Cloud license has expired.
> >
> > If you wish to continue using your Meraki networks, you must renew your license immediately. If you choose not to 
> > renew, your Meraki systems will cease to provide network access on February 28, 2015. If you have recently made a 
> > Meraki purchase, please add your >license key to your Dashboard account.
> ----
>
>
>
>
> Eric Miller, CCNP
> Network Engineering Consultant
> (407) 257-5115
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:55 AM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
>
> I try to avoid anything that Cisco has touched. 
>
> Also not a fan of their stop paying our recurring fee and the device becomes a brick policy. 
>
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com 
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Dennis Bohn" <bohn () adelphi edu>
> To: "Eric C. Miller" <eric () ericheather com>
> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 8:41:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office 
>
> We are substantially larger and use Aruba, but I am wondering why no one has mentioned Meraki (now cisco-meraki). We 
> tried one of their give-away aps and it seemed fine, with the 'cloud management.' I am not advocating Meraki, just 
> curious. 
> best, 
>
>
> Dennis Bohn
> Manager of Network and Systems
> Adelphi University
> bohn () adelphi edu
> 5168773327 
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Eric C. Miller <eric () ericheather com>
> wrote: 
>
> > +1 Xirrus, especially for the multi radio arrays. Crowded common areas
> > benefit from sector antennas attached to individual radios. Also, 
> > there XMS server is really useful for managing a large cluster. 
> > Ubiquiti UniFi is good for smaller installations, but I wouldn't trust 
> > them for enterprise level reliability.
> >
> >
> >
> > Eric Miller, CCNP
> > Network Engineering Consultant
> > (407) 257-5115
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Mike Lyon 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:17 AM 
> > To: Manuel Marín 
> > Cc: NANOG 
> > Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office 
> >
> > Check out Xirrus 
> > On Jan 28, 2015 9:08 PM, "Manuel Marín" <mmg () transtelco net> wrote: 
> >
> > > Dear nanog community 
> > >
> > > I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs 
> > > that you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend 
> > > recommended me Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share 
> > > your experience with Ruckus or with a similar vendor. My experience 
> > > with ubiquity for this type of requirement was not that good. 
> > >
> > > Thank you and have a great day