When we baked off technologies last year, this was a heavily weighted
decision point for us at Columbia. The advantages of Meru's technology
really shined in this area. To put it simply, "the B stayed B, and the G
stayed G" Kind of like McDonald's slogan for the McDLT burger back in the
80's..."
Supporting B clients means that the management messages -- SSID
beacon broadcasts, time slice assignments, etc -- have to be sent at
B data rates. Different manufacturers rate the impact of this as
anywhere from "slight" to "serious".
One has to wonder if those who rate it the latter haven't
What about phasing out support in X number of years?
If you look at the average (and I mean average) life of a student, it's
about 5 years (some of us take a little longer ;). Couple that with the
average life of a campus laptop, does anyone want to be using a 5 year old
laptop? And the likeli
Clint,
Our idea is to install generic APs at all gates, enable a dedicated WPA
SSID just for scanners and take advantage of all those APs to also feed
our regular WLAN to our Arena. If necessary, with this model, we could
turn any AP on campus into a ticketing system ;-)
It has already served its
What of all the 802.11b-only PDA's etc on campus? We still have a fair
amount, sort of hard to think about simply cutting them off.
Lee
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
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From: Ringgold, Clint [m
Philippe,
We were able to install a dedicated, non-broadcast, WPA2, minimal power
etc., network, for our athletic department for the same reasons and
system (Paciolan Ticketing Scanners). We are actually very lucky in
that most of the areas (gates of interest) are not really near any of
the main
Tom,
Our Athletic department just acquired 32 brand new Symbol scanners
for their Paciolan Ticketing system: all 802.11b only.
We might be out of light crude oil before we are out of 802.11b...
Good luck with that Coke!
Philippe
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Zeller, T
