Tom, I have played with Cisco 11n on a fat 1140 (not CAPWAP) and it does pretty
well- like a true 130 Mbps throughput testing with an older early Mac in simple
testing. Nice enterprise-class AP and when not CAPWAP can be used stand-alone
(no controller dependency).
-Lee
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Sorry- meant to say early 11n Mac, not early Mac.
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From: Lee H Badman
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:21 PM
To: 'The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv'
Subject: RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n AP recommendations
Tom, I have played with Cisco 11n
Hello,
We needed to wireless enable a math lab for a 100 workstations and we ended up
using 4 Aruba A/P's and controller running 802.11N. We are seeing throughput in
excess of 200meg at the workstations and they have experienced no issues with
them. We have them secured with Certificates on
We benchmarked a Cisco 1142 and an Aruba AP125 (both controller based) a while
back. They had basically identical performance, although they did vary a bit
depending on how many concurrent traffic streams you had, how many clients you
had, whether traffic was uni- or bi-directional etc. One
We are also a cisco shop and have both 1142 and 1252 AP's on capwap.
We've also recently evaluated Meru wireless gear and found it very
competitive.
You will definitely want to investigate user devices to ensure
throughput. For desktops we have older 2.4 only Belkin USB's (F5D8051)
that
Tom,
One detail that I forgot to mention.
It seems obvious but we got bitten by it many times!
Make sure to use Gigabit ports on switches that uplink the APs.
And if you use a midspan power-injector, also make sure that it supports
Gigabit Ethernet!
Philippe
Univ. of TN
On Apr 8, 2010, at
