jenwilson

Hi Lee, can you send me some more details about your school esp. (general school details, size etc.), any existing wireless, why you want the meru kit, whether you have any IT bods to look after it etc. Regards, Jen.

We are still looking for interest from local schools (Lancashire or North West UK) if possible. The kit hasn't gone anywhere yet (in fact I only started pulling it yesterday). Regards, Jen.

Hi Andy, We decided to go with Cisco as we were making a major expansion of our Wireless network (300 to 1000 APs) and we already had 300 Cisco autonomous APs that we could convert to lightweight and re-use. It meant that Cisco had a 250 AP cost advantage over Meru (and Aruba which we also looked at). Could I ask everyone who responds to indicate their school/location please (saves me having to search for it), thanks. Also, just so you aren't dissapointed, you should know that we may just go with something like giving the kit to a local school that has no wireless network yet, nothings been decided. Just trying to get some other options than re-cycling the kit. Regards, Jen.

Shortly we will have the following available as we have moved to a new wireless vendor - (All purchased from Siracom UK) 39 x AP320 802.11abgn Wireless Access Points - 3 years old 8 x AP302 802.11abg (n capable with license upgrade) Wireless Access Points - 2 years old 2 x MC3050 Wireless Controllers licensed as a HA pair - 3 years old Not sure how the licensing works with the above, you may need to re-license them on a transfer of ownership. Looking to see if any school in the Lancashire/NW area is using Meru and might be interested in them (not sure at the moment whether it would be gratis or a small fee, haven't seen what paperwork we need to do yet). Regards, Jen.