Wireless Solution

remyforbes777

I have been awarded the task of coming up with a wireless solution for our company. We have around 300 users. We are looking for authentication, a centralized management, encryption, support for VLANs and future support of the N standard. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

remyforbes777

So far I am researching Foundry Ironpoint 200 WAP and the Xirrus product.

remyforbes777

Anyone....Bueller.....Bueller?

sthomas

I am not an expert in this area by any means but I would recommend checking into Cisco wireless equipment. We use those where I work and they seem to work pretty good.

seuss_ssues

Cisco makes some great wifi products.

snadam

seuss_ssues wrote:

Cisco makes some great wifi products.

what, you dont think thier linksys WAP could handle these requirements?

NinjaBoy

I would recommend 3Com® Unified Gigabit Wireless PoE Switch 24, this is the equipement that I'm currently trialling wireless with at my place. They work with 2 type of access points, but I would recommend using the higher spec ones, the 8760's.

While it would be nice to have N standard equipement, I would actually wait until the N standard has been released. Currently only a draft version of N is available, it is estimated that the final release will be released in Sept 2008, there have already been articles stating potential problems with jumping on the band-wagon and purchasing draft-N (the current N) based equipement. See here for example:

Becky Waring wrote:

Instead of products based on a final standard--which should appear by early 2008 and will be Wi-Fi Alliance-certified for interoperability--what we have now is a flood of "draft" 802.11n products based on a preliminary and incomplete version of the standard. These products might be--but are not guaranteed to be--firmware upgradable to the final spec.

Well this is my advise:

Either go with the current A/B/G technology now or wait until next year, when the prices have drop alot, and go with N. Don't be persuaded to buy draft-N equipement that isn't guaranteed to be fully compliant with N or you may find you've wasted a lot of money and time but that's just my opinion.

-Ken

remyforbes777

Thanks for the replies and suggestions.
Does anyone else have any more suggestions they want to add. The more the merrier