I don't see a finalization of 802.11n anytime soon. If I remember right the original draft was supposed to be finalized by now, but then pushed it back to Spring 08 then Oct 08 and now Mar 09. I wouldn't be suprised to see it pushed back yet again. I was also concerned about not seeing a release on 3 patents to the IEEE standards body yet, but then just found this article. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/02/WLAN-patent-threat-may-be-reso lved_1.html
I think a/b/g will be here for quite some time. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Pait [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:38 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Draft 2.0 We are currently rolling out Cisco a/b/g wireless and asked the vendor about designing with 802.11n in mind. The overall response was that the technology is too immature and any predictions would be highly speculative. They also said that the consumer base would not be populated with N - capable devices within the next 5-8 years in sufficient numbers to realize an advantage. So what does the population think about the lifespan of the current 802.11a/b/g technology? On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:09 -0500, Jorj Bauer wrote: > > > 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
