I like Open-Mesh’s equipment, and software update cycles (I have written about them before). The hardware is reasonably priced, the solution set keeps moving forward and for a small (relatively) deployment, the management dashboard is flexible, rich and frankly blows most enterprise solutions out the water with ease of management and access to information.
The OM5P is a 5GHz-only device, which I won’t discuss because its been deprecated by the OM5P-AN. Thanks for releasing this; I managed to buy 3 in the short window when it was available, and it was a poor performer. Not a good purchase at all.
The MR900 on the other hand is a pretty awesome device. 802.11n in 2.4 and 5GHz, in a single device, and fairly priced. Robust, good radio performance, and pretty easy to setup/maintain. It too had been replaced by the MR1750, essentially an ac device in 2.4 and 5GHz. I have a few on back-order, so look forward to testing that.
But, Open-Mesh solves a problem and its cloud controller Cloudtrax solve a pretty simple set of problems;
- Relatively cheap AP’s, that work relatively well from a radio/RF perspective
- AP’s can be wired or meshed, and require no configuration to configure them in either mode
- A web-based management console, that provides sufficient control but simplistically
- The ability to run 4 SSID’s, inter-mixing rate limiting, client isolation and ability to not bridge to the LAN solve the networking issues
- The ability to run mixed authentication modes, external RADIUS and captive portal, PayPal and Facebook integration and flexible deployment modes
- Pre-built rich protocol-level, client-level and SSID-level traffic graphs that require zero configuration
I can highly recommend Open-Mesh.
