Typical PC hardware of the current generation can more than saturate a 1gb link. From what I've seen on this list, most people have deployed hardware that is certainly capable of servicing 750-1000 clients if the OS and apps are properly tuned.
Of course if you're going to be servicing that many wireless clients, you'll want a higher-end VAN-able WLAN setup. That'll REALLY blow the budget. :) On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, John Watlington > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Proposed change to the hardware spec: > >> > >> From one to four access points may use an simpler switch, > >> connected to the server over a 100 Mb/s link. From five to seven > >> access points will need a better switch, which provides a 1 GB/s > >> link to the server. > >> > >> This means that a 1 GB/s interface should be specified for the > >> servers. > > > > Theoretically, yes... but perhaps this is a bit over the top. For the > > space we are aiming... > > > > - the XS services will bottleneck well before saturating 1Gb/s > > traffic > > - 'upstream' services that the XS is routing will bottleneck well > > before 1Gb/s > > > > if we see a 7-AP setup, it will be there to support either a large > > number of laptops or a location with obstacles that needs many > > antennaes. In any case, it will support laptops mostly peering w > > each other. > > Wrong. Right now all collaboration moves through the ejabberd server. > We hope to change that, but it won't happen for roughly a year. > > > If we are designing for a "client base" of laptops that we actually > > expect to saturate 1Gb, then... we need to start recommending a > > mid-range server cluster, perhaps a SAN, all costing a few megabucks > > ;-) > > But a school of 250 students will need at least five access points. > It only takes two laptops to saturate a channel (OK, maybe one). > So you are saying that squid or apache can't keep up with feeding > ten streams at 11+ Mb/s each ? > > wad > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- Aaron Huslage - 503.860.1634 http://blog.hact.net IM: AIM - ahuslage; Yahoo - ahuslage; MSN - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GTalk - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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