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Re: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs]

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Tue Nov 13 12:39:38 2007


* [email protected] (Frank Bulk) [Tue 13 Nov 2007, 14:24 CET]:
If you're going with Extricom you don't need to worry about channel planning beyond adding more "channel blankets".

I understand Foundry's wireless products do the same thing. Seems to work ok but have not heard about larger test cases than a hundred or so clients.



* [email protected] (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 last few CCC Congresses in Berlin, which had pretty much working wireless - even with thousands of attendees:

http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1347-Camp07-NetworkReview.pdf
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1247-23c3-noc-review-corrected.pdf
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/652-slides_network_review.pdf

(They're still looking for a sponsor of wireless equipment for this year's edition, by the way)

Regards,


-- Niels.


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