Re: 802.11 based WISP hardware

[Dan Brisson <dbrisson () uvm edu>]

Definitely take a look at Mikrotik.  The gear is very low-cost with very 
large feature set.  I have not used their CAPWAP functionality, so I 
can't speak to that.

Ubiquiti is also very good and can do most, if not all, of what you want.

-dan

Dan Brisson
Network Engineer
University of Vermont

On 3/27/15 6:59 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m looking to gather some public opinion, links and pointers around the current landscape of WISP hardware vendors.  I’m 
> familiar with Cisco, Ruckus, AdTran, Motorola and Aruba (HP) but I’m wondering who else is out there that folks have used 
> with success.  My main areas of interest are around controller based (hardware or virtual (in-house, not off-net cloud 
> based)) systems that have a range of indoor & outdoor 802.11AC PoE capable APs.  The controller(s) would be capable of 
> tunnelling traffic from the APs for one or more SSIDs, support per-SSID captive portals and unique, intra-SSID captive 
> portals.  In a perfect world, an on-board DHCP server would be super handy too.  The system should support CAPWAP, but some 
> proprietary alternative is also fine, the usual suite of security protocols per SSID, reliable intra-SSID AP roaming 
> algorithms and multi-SSID capable.
>
> Thanks in advance.