I know that in some cases it's appropriate and I've said this every time this "discussion" comes up, but running this holy grail of 100 customers per AP is just rubbish and will become more rubbish as time goes on. These lists alternate between the same two threads almost indefinitely. One is that everything but Canopy is horrible, while the other is that we don't have enough bandwidth to provide current, much less next-generation services.
Low bandwidth wireless systems will not work with these 100 users per AP as NetFlix and similar services increase adoption. Wireless systems will have to support hundreds of megabits per second if we're going to have 100 users on an AP, not the 40 the latest and greatest Canopy supports. If UBNT can only do 40 customers out of it's 100 megabit PtMP AirMax system, great! When people fire up their 5 meg HD NetFlix streams, everything still works. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rubens Kuhl" <rube...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:48 AM To: <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: [WISPA] Wimax gear > Ubiquiti's move into the large scale market, whether it will work or > not, is just happening now with AirMax. It slows the overall > performance to much less than 150+ Mbps, but it might get to the > 100/user per-AP scale. 3 or 6 months from now we will know of either > large deployments or #ubntfail stories. > > > Rubens > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Charles Wu <c...@cticonnect.com> > Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:33 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wimax gear > To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > > > > Let's go back to the original thread -- we were talking about how > Ubiquiti was "changing the game" with their new $75 AP that does 150 > Mb or something (as compared to the Alvarion/Motorolas/WiMAX guys of > the world who still don't "get it" with their $3/5/10k APs) -- up > until now, it's been my experience that this is an "apples to oranges" > debate (heck, couldn't I make the same argument that belkin or dlink > has had a super-N mimo AP for $69 at Best Buy for some time now?) > > That being said, if someone has built such a system, please pipe up > and share your experiences -- I'm always interested in learning how to > do things better/faster/cheaper... > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
