Had they received Wi-Fi certification? I think that could be a differentiating factor.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: Jorj Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:09 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Draft 2.0 > > We are looking at a campus wide wireless deployment, and my supervisor is > > pushing for a complete Cisco 1252 with N draft 2.0 capability. We would > > have about a total of 250 to 300 AP's in full deployment. Our wired > > infrastructure is currently 100% Procurve with about 90% of it being 10/100 > > switched. I'd like to know what other schools are doing with 802.11n. > > I think you are right on. I think as long as your a/b/g network is working > well, the students aren't going to care about 11n. In my mind this is still > a very immature technology. Personally, I'd hate to put any draft technology on my production network. We went through the same thing with 802.11g. Network researchers (here) that started using 802.11g draft hardware suffered innumerable interoperability headaches. -- Jorj -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Jorj Bauer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Networking | 3330 Walnut St. School of Engineering and Applied Science | Levine Building, Room 160 University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA 19104 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - ********** 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/.
