Brian,
If you have your Aruba network configures appropriately, subnet size should not
be an issue.
A number of years ago, Aruba recommended using vlan pools of /24 in order to
reduce broadcast traffic, making better use of the shared airtime.
The current Aruba recommendation is to enable
Tim,
I am not sure what you mean by “bridging protocols”. Are you referring to
things like Apple AirPlay that require the endpoints be on the same layer 2
network? Aruba’s AirGroup software defined networking does a pretty good job
of resolving those issues.
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Engi
Actually, you reduce the broadcast traffic with smaller subnets. Remember that
all clients on the subnet *must* respond to a broadcast.
Smaller subnets generally mean fewer clients responding to a given broadcast.
This leaves more airtime for productive Wi-Fi traffic.
Bruce Osborne
Wirel
We've been using Ubiquiti AF24s to connect to a couple buildings. For the most
part, traffic is VOIP and video surveillance and it works reliably. One did get
fried by a lightning strike to the building, but so did a bunch of other
things, so I don't blame Ubiquiti for anything.
Skimmed throug
Actually, they don't have to "respond." They have to process the incoming
frame. If they aren't listening for that port, they will ignore or drop the
packet.
If you are talking about client impact to CPU/battery/etc, I agree. If you are
talking about airtime, the sum of the broadcast traffic
The 1G ports made me think you were only interested in that speed class,
but several others have since suggested lower speed links so just in
case... We've been using some Ubiquiti Nanobridge devices (100Mbps ethernet
side, although it's ~150Mbps shared TDMA-based wireless for both
directions) for
