[149774] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Wireless Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mario Eirea)
Wed Feb 15 19:02:06 2012
From: Mario Eirea <meirea@charterschoolit.com>
To: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>, Arzhel Younsi <xionox@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:51 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAHsqw9sNPd0ThSBEpf-ud7HhP64rE5JP3dhT39be7Pzw8gMjyA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Just be careful with Xirrus. A little known secret is that only 3 of those =
radios can be running in the 2.4ghz band at any time.=0A=
=0A=
Mario Eirea=0A=
IT Department=0A=
Charter School IT=0A=
20803 Johnson Street=0A=
Pembroke Pines, FL 33029=0A=
Ph: 954-435-7827=0A=
Cell: 305-742-6524=0A=
Fax: 954-442-1762=0A=
________________________________________=0A=
From: Jonathan Lassoff [jof@thejof.com]=0A=
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:50 PM=0A=
To: Arzhel Younsi=0A=
Cc: Mario Eirea; nanog@nanog.org=0A=
Subject: Re: Wireless Recommendations=0A=
=0A=
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Arzhel Younsi <xionox@gmail.com> wrote:=0A=
> Xirrus say that they can support 640 clients with this device:=0A=
> http://www.xirrus.com/Products/Wireless-Arrays/XR-Series/XR-4000-Series=
=0A=
> I heard about it a couple weeks ago, didn't try it yet.=0A=
=0A=
That's a pretty neat product -- it seems like it takes care of=0A=
spectrally isolating clients by utilizing 4 - 8 radios per AP-box and=0A=
8 - 24 directional sector antennas.=0A=
=0A=
I feel like this addresses the suggestions that I and others gave to=0A=
utilize more APs rather than a big central one, but it just packages=0A=
it all into one box with many antennas.=0A=
=0A=
Cheers,=0A=
jof=0A=
