For such a large deployment I would be putting pressure on a manufacture AND reseller to give a guaranteed design.
You also may find slightly (or substantially) different designs depending on manufacturer as well. You did not mention if you have a preferred manufacture yet. _________________________ Thank you, Gregory R. Scholz Lead Network Engineer Information Technology Group Keene State College (603)358-2070 --Seek first to understand, and then to be understood. (Steven Covey) -----Original Message----- From: Karl Reuss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:53 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Highrise dorm RF design We're getting ready to expand our campus wireless coverage into the dorms; full coverage for 12,000 students over the next year. The recent dorm discussions here have been very helpful. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with dense AP deployments in traditional high-rise dorms. About half of our students live in these monsters. 8 floors, 250' straight hallway down the middle of each, rooms on either side, block walls, 70 users per floor. Sort of like prison cells:) Our field guys and residential facilities folks would rather not put the APs in student rooms, which basically just leaves the hallways. I'm worried about co-channel interference on the b/g side. 6 or 7 APs down a hallway in clear sight of each other will surely step on each other. Loss through the floors only seems to be 10db, which means we need to watch the vertical as well. Dropping power would only help a little, and at the expense of room penetration. External patch antennas are one idea were looking at. If anyone has any experience or advice in this area they could share, I would be grateful! Thanks, -Karl Reuss University of Maryland, College Park ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
