[AusNOG] Wireless Access Point recommendations

[John Edwards]

Cisco, Ruckus and Huawei are all doing their own hardware R&D on WiFi
if you're after best of breed.

Most of the rest are "merchant silicon", wrappers around an Atheros chipset.

Aruba have good solutions for single sites.

Airtight Networks are the new cool kids - they have a cloud solution
with integrated packet tracing and collection.

All of the decent vendors have SDN solutions for WiFi in their roadmap.

#WFD7 on twitter if you want to see what's on the leading edge right now.

Disclaimer: I have designed and built at least one of the world's
largest contiguous WiFi networks for my employer, using Cisco hardware

John



On 8 August 2014 09:26, Ross Cheetham <ross at crucial.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Looking to get a decent AC or N standard Access Point for our office. Use
> will vary from mobile's, laptops and some workstations. Predicting staff
> will be connecting using multiple devices, not just 1 device per staff
> member.
>
> I figured some of you out there may of rolled varying configurations /
> setups into offices before so looking to call upon your experience.
>
> Looking to get something decent, but of course on the relatively budget side
> but not dirt cheap
>
> Want to avoid the usual clunky Dlinks, Netgears, Billions etc which I
> classify in the el-cheapo range.
>
> Got a recommendation for the Apple Extreme AP, so got that on the list.
>
> Off or on list is fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Ross
>
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