Net-Ctrl Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 The Ruckus Bundle offers are great and currently running until the end of the month i believe, and they are: Ruckus Wireless 3050 ZoneDirector w/ 25 x 7363 ZoneFlex with Ruckus 3050 ZoneDirector Premium Support - 5 Years - £9,200.00 Ruckus Wireless 3050 ZoneDirector w/ 25 x 7982 ZoneFlex with Ruckus 3050 ZoneDirector Premium Support - 5 Years - £14,200.00 If you then buy an additional 10,20 etc 7363, 7373 or 7982s on top of these bundles you will get 2, 4 etc of them for free.
BlueFlag Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Meraki will continue to work fine if t'internet goes down. Usage stats and all that data just queues locally on the AP until the connection is back. Apologies for sounding a bit clueless here, but how does it authenticate new users etc?
paulfinlay Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 The APs act as RADIUS clients directly so continue to function. But the following services are lost Network configuration changes will not take effect Usage statistics will become out of date Channel spreading and other optimizations will not run The Rogue AP list will not update If you are using Meraki-hosted RADIUS for authentication and Controller Disconnection Behavior is set to "Retricted", new clients will not be able to authenticate. By default, all new clients are denied. You can also select for all new clients to be allowed (Open). Clients who have already authenticated continue to function normally. Newly associated clients will not see Meraki-hosted splash pages. Clients will be given access without seeing the splash page. (depends on settings on Configure -> Access Control -> Controller Disconnection Behavior) If you have Meraki Billing enabled, new clients will not be able to purchase network access.
glennda Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Apologies for sounding a bit clueless here, but how does it authenticate new users etc? Beaten to it - what he said ^
bshingler Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 well we trailed unifi and its a big no no if your school is looking for 1:1 roll out or any form of high density.. we are now in the process of implementing a meru system and cannot wiat for a stable wireless setup +1 for meru having worked with there wireless before
Phildw Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Another vote for UniFi... it just works! There is no hardware controller. Just a service that can run on Windows/Linux/OS X, we have ours running on a Windows virtual server. You can run it on the cloud such as on the Amazon cloud services. Many of the features of the UniFi system work even when the controller isn't running, including zero handoff. I have several sites running Hosted Unifi on AWS, the cost is staggering... A massive 40p a month for traffic. I'm so disgusted, I'm off to spend £20k on another popular brand name system as its clearly obvious that spending five or even six figures is the only way to get decent Wifi in system and its not my money anyway so why should I care. Only joking... +1 Unifi , if Carlsberg made Wifi Im sure it would have a glowing LED ring in the middle. well we trailed unifi and its a big no no if your school is looking for 1:1 roll out or any form of high density.. we are now in the process of implementing a meru system and cannot wiat for a stable wireless setup +1 for meru having worked with there wireless before Hey guys. I am looking at revamping the Wireless network in my school (Primary, ~400 students, 20 teachers). Have had Meru, Meraki and AeroHive all come around the school, but their solutions are really beyond our budget. Have heard quite a few people mentioning Unifi of late, and am considering that for a cheap alternative. We have a suite of 30 netbooks (hopefully soon to be increased to 60, or have 30 Surface RTs added). How will it handle 30-60 students all trying to log on and access their files etc at the same time?
gshaw Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 (edited) Just remember with the proprietary cloud managed solutions to ensure your budget will always be able to cover the renewal costs otherwise you could end up with very expensive plastic bricks mounted to the ceiling in the future Used Ruckus at my last place, very nice and got Aruba at the college I work at now Edited August 9, 2013 by gshaw
swiftysw1 Posted August 9, 2013 Author Posted August 9, 2013 Currently we have 40 Airports dotted around our Comp.. With over 700 devices.. Id does the job very very well. Obv.. Not fully managed...
Net-Ctrl Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Hi @Phildw if you would like to add Ruckus to the list of solutions you're looking at let me know and i can get someone to give you a call to discuss it in more detail and answer any questions. We have a dedicated Ruckus sales and tech team that would be happy to help
Meldrew Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Has anyone come across Open-Mesh? I've recently come across it. It has a cloud based controller, which is subscription free (unlike Meraki I believe) and the APs cost about £70 each. It comes across as a mesh type system, but its not a problem to cable each AP into the network to make it a non-mesh system. I'm planning to purchase a couple of APs and test it. Anyone see any show stoppers with it? Meldrew
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