[148484] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: enterprise 802.11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hotze)
Mon Jan 16 10:50:37 2012
From: Martin Hotze <m.hotze@hotze.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:49:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0+aXYzABtwafkY9E+aHEziRQ7==O6NatEzHK7TFLbS5sJD2g@mail.gmail.com>
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a WLAN controller will help you detect rogue APs, rescan the area and also =
changing frequencies/channels in use (depending on configuration, etc.).
but this will not replace a site survey. :)
and it will not prevent you from having Macs on your network.
#m
From: Anurag Bhatia [mailto:me@anuragbhatia.com]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:44 PM
To: Martin Hotze
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: enterprise 802.11
(...)
You need to do a bit of site survey to get idea of how many AP's you really=
need. Remember it's open spectrum and running different bands from adjacen=
t AP's, you get really high capacity. With more AP's you can eventually re-=
use lot of spectrum running them at low power till an extent it doesn't eff=
ect coverage.
(...)