Meru Compatibilty between Access Points

[rom1984]

Hi People,

Long term lurker first time poster here! Just after some advice. I am the Network Manager for a primary school and we have installed a Meru 1500 controller with 13 x AP320. They work fine and the school is happy with the performance. They have built a new wing and now want to add some additional AP's so I had a couple of questions...

 

1) Can you still buy licence for the MC1500 for additional access points?

2) Can you still buy compatible internal and external access points for the controller? If so what model APs are compatible with the 1500 controller.

 

If not and we upgraded the controller to MC1550 with some new AP822e access points, does anyone know would the older AP320 access points still work?

 

Thanks all (I've logged the call with Meru but not heard from them, will update if they do)

[psydii]

You should be able to migrate to a modern virtual controller. To gain support for the newer APs.

 

The modern AP's don't work seamlessly with the older ones. I.e the transition between areas covered by the two models works like it does for all other vendors, which for many scenarios is quite acceptable.

 

Give your vendor a call. Or Switchshop.

[rom1984]

Cheers for the info psydii..

 

Got a reply from Meru for anyone that comes across this in the future. If we upgrade our controller to 1550 then the older AP320 will still work so the AP320 & new AP822e can be on the same controller. However as psydii said you can't have them in the same location as they do not work seamlessly between old and new APs.

 

That happens to be fine for my situation as the wing is external from the main school with its own iPads / laptops so should be fine for us.

 

Thanks

[SHimmer45]

we have meru here (a MC3000 and an iirc ap310's) we brought a few of the newer 320AP's and you need to set the mode on the newer points to the same as the old ones otherwise they fight each other and you dont get anything from the old point.