January+17,+2012

Mike Hann hosted us at Great Meadows and he brought out a vendor he is using for //cloud based wireless management// Andrew Wesbecher - Regional Sales Manager, 917-566-0120, andrew.wesbecher@meraki.com - Education is 50% of Meraki's business - "cheaper and easier than Cisco", much of cisco's hardware meraki made into a cloud software - 50-80% cheaper than a cisco solution - access points require power of ethernet (POE) either from a switch or an injector - wireless access points (WAP's) can connect 35-45 devices - meraki will send engineers to do a walkthru at no charge - meraki will do trade-ins on old WAP's to upgrade to N wifi WAP's - browser based wireless management, WAP rules persist even if you lose internet - meraki also sells firewalls, routers, and switches - WAP's can perform filtering based upon SSID (i.e. teacher network vs student network); filtering based upon Kaspersky
 * Meraki** (@http://meraki.com/)
 * **meraki will allow county-wide purchasing if schools buy together**
 * -** pricing: MR16 802.11n WAP $649 (there are discounts for education), license fee (annual) 1yr=$150, 5yr=$450

February 14 @ Pohatcong - discuss SIS and NJDOE mandates? smids, HIB, common course codes? March 13 @ Lopatcong - don't forget Tech Day on March 16 **(www.lopatsd.org/tech)**
 * NEXT MEETINGS:**

Diane Mandry - Pohatcong Matt Shea - Lopatcong Sharon Harpster - Knowlton Becky Snyder - Washboro Schools Kim Sigman - Washington Twp Dawn Gizis - Bethlehem Twp Karen Wester - Franklin Twp Jeff Louw - North Warren Adam Tucker - Warren Hills John Morsillo - Hackettstown Mike Hann - Great Meadows
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