[100819] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Grenier)
Tue Nov 13 13:09:45 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:00:41 -0500
From: "Tom Grenier" <tgrenier@penobscot.net>
To: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Aruba has some pretty large implementations under their belt including
Microsoft Corp. Check them out.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Niels Bakker
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:35 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs]
* frnkblk@iname.com (Frank Bulk) [Tue 13 Nov 2007, 14:24 CET]:
>If you're going with Extricom you don't need to worry about channel=20
>planning beyond adding more "channel blankets".
I understand Foundry's wireless products do the same thing. Seems to=20
work ok but have not heard about larger test cases than a hundred or so=20
clients.
* carl@personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) [Tue 13 Nov 2007, 05:56 CET]:
>On Wifi for 1000:
[..]
In the context of that, you may wish to peruse the proceedings of the=20
last few CCC Congresses in Berlin, which had pretty much working=20
wireless - even with thousands of attendees:
http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1347-Camp07-NetworkR
eview.pdf
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1247-23c3-noc-re
view-corrected.pdf
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/652-slides_netwo
rk_review.pdf
(They're still looking for a sponsor of wireless equipment for this=20
year's edition, by the way)
Regards,
-- Niels.
--=20
"The Mac doesn't have a one-button mouse, it has a five-button mouse,
with=20
four of the buttons on the keyboard."
-- Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>
