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Because I was offered 20 AP's for the price of 10 (buy one get one free). We are now looking to expand our network and we need to purchase a whole load of new kit, and licences. Its very expensive and the VP is not happy one bit :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Domino
I am going to get shot
ps . support has not been great so far probably because they are not as big as Cisco, 3Com and Aruba etc etc
Hi, sorry to butt in.......what are the pros of the Ruckus setups over installing bog standard wireless access points?
search is your friend... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/networ...hot-stuff.html
mainly its robustness, and the snazzy beamflex antennas
you put it in, get it happy then never touch it again, as reliable as cable IMHO
Your asking the wrong person here, I really don't think much at all to Ruckus. Our system at my old school was alot more robust, better tech support and was better priced!Quote:
Originally Posted by flashsnaps
Wow, you really seem to have it in for Ruckus judging by your posts
LOL was thinking the same thing Dan seems abit fishy to me!
yup all of his 5 posts have been slagging ruckus . . . . .
maybe he's really from cisco and there jealous of all the positive attention Ruckus is getting...
Just confirmed my Ruckus order today. Cant wait till it gets here!
WOW this is all looking odd.....Ruckus just works that us the best bit about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMainGeek
@reggiep - without establishing just how much you have to spend (unless you don't wish to disclose publically), it's really difficult to give you ideas. Decent wireless kit is one idea, but as I'm sure you'd agree you can do a lot more with £20K than £5K obviously :)
I had a similar conversation with SMT a few weeks ago... It has been a hectic couple of weeks getting prices & deciding what to buy.
I looked at areas where we are likely to need to replace kit in the next couple of years until BSF kicks in, & where we could reduce running costs/improve performance.
We are short of network cabinet space, so I have ordered a bunch of 48 port gigabit switches
I reckoned we could save printing costs & improve presentation so we have bought new duplex printers, Colour A3 and A4 plus monochrome.
Our DCs are getting a bit long in the tooth so we are replacing them along with our print server & one used for network managment/WSUS/Ghost etc.
We are renewing & increasing our UPS capacity to include our key network cabinets as well as the servers as we have lost a couple of switches over the last year due to power outages.
We also decided to invest in digital signage, & to add a curriculum dimension to it we will get our art & media studies students involved in the design & presentation of content for the display.
We have bought a couple of 'quick' desktop & notebook systems for video editing as our stock systems struggle a bit.
I have also stocked up on spare HDD, including some spare SAS server drives even though they are under warranty & we tend to run RAID5 arrays with 'hot' spares for all our critical servers anyway. I would much rather replace a failing drive as soon as it goes down rather than wait for the warranty swap-out.
Sorry to say Vendor Websites are always the same they just want to tell you about the products and throw as much of the technical info they can into it, although I defend as the info is truthfall and informative, but I do agree there is a lot of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by reggiep
The key things you need to know can be found on our website Ruckus Wireless - Wireless LAN Solutions
If you need more info just shout
Cheers
Mark
Who sold you this kit???????Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMainGeek
I am confused......
In other post you say you need to upgrade the license from 25 to 50 to enable you to put more access points on the network....is this correct?
If so the only thing you need to buy is a license upgrade for a ZoneDirector 1025 tp a 1050, this allows up to 50 access points connected at anyone time running across your campus.
Then the only new equipment you need to buy is the additional access points due to expansion which is always going to be the way as you have expanded on what you currently have due to demand or progression.
As for support are you using a reseller or going direct to Ruckus?
The reason I ask is that Net-Ctrl are the only Gold Resllers of Ruckus Wireless in the Europe and the reason we have this is that our engineers are trained to the highest level of technical ability as are our sales team.
Tell me more as I am happy to help.
PS I wont let you get shot I promise
Cheers
Mark
Don't go there!!! Go for another brand, like Aruba or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by reggiep
I had a good set of hair when I first started this job and thanks to Ruckus I am now receeding :drunken_smilie:
:) No, just an iritated user jamin! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jamin100
The gun has been put down for the time being....Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkPower