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Re: enterprise 802.11
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:38:49 -0800
On 1/15/12 11:30 , Ken King wrote:
I need to choose a wireless solution for a new office. up to 600 devices will connect. most devices are mac books and mobile phones. we can see hundreds of access points in close proximity to our new office space. what are the thoughts these days on the best enterprise solution/vendor?
My normal advice is fairly vendor independant. use dual band dual radio APs. 802.11A attenuates much more effectively in residential/commercial construction so the cells are smaller and there's a lot more spectrum... you'll attract all macs, as well as ipads and most enterprise laptops to 802.11a/n Don't run mixed mode in the 2.4ghz band. drop the output power on the 2.4ghz radios to ~30mw, turn off the 802.11b rates, and increase the multicast rate to at least 12Mb/s plan for not more that 50 people per ap (remember the aps have dual radios). if you're going to use 40mhz channels (and n-rates) do so only on 5.8ghz where the map coloring problem is tractable.
Thanks for your replies. Ken King
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- Re: enterprise 802.11, (continued)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Meftah Tayeb (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Stefan (Jan 15)
- RE: enterprise 802.11 Network IP Dog (Jan 15)
- RE: enterprise 802.11 Joe Johnson (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Scott Bethke (Jan 15)
- RE: enterprise 802.11 Joe Johnson (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Shahab Vahabzadeh (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Brent Jones (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Roy (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Eugeniu Patrascu (Jan 15)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Brent Jones (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Joel jaeggli (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Jon Sevier (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 16)
- SV: enterprise 802.11 Andreas Larsen (Jan 16)
- RE: enterprise 802.11 Martin Hotze (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Anurag Bhatia (Jan 16)
- RE: enterprise 802.11 Martin Hotze (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Tim Franklin (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Jared Mauch (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Jay Ashworth (Jan 16)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Robert E. Seastrom (Jan 18)
- Re: enterprise 802.11 Anurag Bhatia (Jan 16)