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From: Wireless Issues in the JANET community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Fern

Sent: 21 April 2010 16:23

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Subject: Re: WLAN Upgrade



Jamie Lee wrote:

> Hello, I'm new to the list and noticed you are looking at Meru, I looked at Meru and was impressed with the flat or blanket cell they create, which they claim reduces traffic overheads.  Have you considered the Aerohive solution?  It's enterprise class but guess what? No contoller and it works.  



We looked at them briefly when deciding what to evaluate. It looked

quite interesting at the time however a main requirement we had was a

single (or couple for redundancy) point to configure all our client

VLANs i.e. at a controller rather than each AP; this wouldn't be

possible with Aerohive.





Oh, I was of the understanding that once you have the Hive set up it is then pushed out to the other devices, so long as you designate one as the manager device, the rest essentially act as slaves.  Once you expland beyond 10 AP's you need the manager software that can deploy all the settings to all AP's, that’s how I understood it but if I'm honest I've never seen that side of it working, as I say we only bought two.





Coincidentally one of my colleagues just had a call from Aerohive 10

mins ago seeing if we were interested in any of their products!



That's a coincidence, I've never had a call direct from them, we bought them via a reseller we use for wired gear.

Jamie





-Jeff



> I recently installed a wireless bridge using two Hive AP 340 with external antennas and they just work!! So easy to set up out of the box, not much to configure and works with existing radius.  If you haven't yet made the procurement decision give them a peek.  I don't think you'll regret it.



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