[35152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Next NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Feb 28 13:23:26 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:18:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, Bora Akyol <akyol@akyol.org>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:23:19AM -0800, Lucy E. Lynch wrote:
> > Our big costs were US West curcuits into the hotel (6xT1 - we could have
> > gotten away with 4xT1) and cable - we had lenghts cut to fit the table
> > layout in the ballroom. We had switches & such on hand, and we "borrowed"
> > terminal room machines from one of the student labs -
>
> If these costs were negligible, how much would it have cost?
>
> (assuming, for example, an 802.11b shot from a hotel to an already-
> connected nearby building, donated transit,
we actually tried to do a wireless run as a backup plan, but couldn't find
an open conduit, and the hotel balked at the thought of our wiring guys
coring 11 floors in order to get to the roof...
I don't think nanog is quite ready to go wireless only in the meeting room
although cutting down on the wired infrastructure deployed is something
that's been worked on...
> doing wireless-only in the
> conference and having some friendly vendor loan the machines for the
> terminal room).
>
>
> Joe
>
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