Typical PC hardware of the current generation can more than saturate a 1gb
link. From what I've seen on this list, most people have deployed hardware
that is certainly capable of servicing 750-1000 clients if the OS and apps
are properly tuned.
Of course if you're going to be servicing that many wireless clients, you'll
want a higher-end VAN-able WLAN setup. That'll REALLY blow the budget. :)
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, John Watlington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Proposed change to the hardware spec:
From one to four access points may use an simpler switch,
connected to the server over a 100 Mb/s link. From five to seven
access points will need a better switch, which provides a 1 GB/s
link to the server.
This means that a 1 GB/s interface should be specified for the
servers.
Theoretically, yes... but perhaps this is a bit over the top. For the
space we are aiming...
- the XS services will bottleneck well before saturating 1Gb/s
traffic
- 'upstream' services that the XS is routing will bottleneck well
before 1Gb/s
if we see a 7-AP setup, it will be there to support either a large
number of laptops or a location with obstacles that needs many
antennaes. In any case, it will support laptops mostly peering w
each other.
Wrong. Right now all collaboration moves through the ejabberd server.
We hope to change that, but it won't happen for roughly a year.
If we are designing for a client base of laptops that we actually
expect to saturate 1Gb, then... we need to start recommending a
mid-range server cluster, perhaps a SAN, all costing a few megabucks
;-)
But a school of 250 students will need at least five access points.
It only takes two laptops to saturate a channel (OK, maybe one).
So you are saying that squid or apache can't keep up with feeding
ten streams at 11+ Mb/s each ?
wad
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