Guys, We are extremely pleased with our new Meru network here. I appreciate the dilemma, i had conversations with most of the afore mentioned suppliers. We eventually took up the offer of borrowing some eval kit from Meru to see first hand how it worked with our own devices. Very impressed! The bandwidth limitations associated with our existing unmanaged wifi network have gone. We can now consistently logon suites of laptops/students with a 4Mb mandatory profile in a couple of minutes. The ability to create security profiles and SSIDs with a couple of mouse clicks is superb. The result is the ability to support not only our own devices, but an array of staff / students handheld devices. As a school our strategy is to embrace the use of personal handhelds and as such students are now accessing Moodle / Mahara / email etc with surprising regularity. In a recent 'very high' density test we simultaneously connected 200 devices to our Meru network, and then attempted simultaneous video streams, nearly 90 devices streamed the vid successfully at which point we saturated our Internet bandwith! Very pleased to observe that the Meru network didnt even break a sweat!
