Hi Folks, I am building a wireless network for our buildings here at HQ (six buildings linked by fiber). I don't anticipate more than say 200 simultaneous wireless connections, since the goal is to support our various meeting rooms and training rooms, not staff connections. I am considering design options for the wireless architecture, such as: - wireless network on a single subnet and dedicated vlan. - wireless network, each building having it's own subnet for wireless traffic I'm purchasing small POE switches for the APs in each building. Our current switches are not POE. I plan to add a dedicated fiber connection for each new switch in the buildings (we have a number of available strands to use). So my questions... - single subnet or divide up one for each building? (There will be no parking lot connection, so laptops will need to reconnect) - any reason to connect the wireless switch in a non-core building to the user/data switch, other than a second lower priority route back to our main communications room? All of the systems to which users connect are in our main communications room in a single building, so it's not like user in building "A" would actually connect to any servers or other systems in that building. The wired and wireless networks will be connected via our core switch bank. Being new to wireless design, your thoughts are appreciated. Lessons learned most welcome. Site survey is already done, so I know placement of APs at least. Tom
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