RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-05 Thread Frank Bulk
-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N Bruce, We recently completed a major deployment of 3,400+ Cisco 1142 AP's in our roughly 5 million sq ft of building space (replacing 200 old Cisco AP's of various flavors in the process). Our design was based on providing

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Murphy
Bruce, We're in the later stages of a wireless network renewal, replacing an older a/b/g autonomous infrastructure with a controller based a/b/g/n system (Cisco WiSMs and 1250s). We've deployed about 2350 APs so far, doing a one-to-one replacement of the old system. It's worked well so far,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Philippe Hanset
one to one replacement worked for most of our cases (going from Proxim AP-2000 b/g to Aruba AP-125). Weak coverage became better, and very weak coverage became weak! We had to replace all power injectors. Our old POE (from 2001) didn't support 802.3af. We took advantage of the change to use

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Clark, Joseph K
: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N We are currently looking at upgrading our current Cisco 1200 autonomous APs, with WLSE management to a new wireless N network. The new vendor has yet to be determined. I was looking to learn from others who have made a similar migration how the move to N changed AP

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
-Original Message- From: Clark, Joseph K [clar...@cofc.edu]Received: 12/3/09 4:52 PMTo: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU [wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu]Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N We have done a few one to one replacements from Cisco to Xirrus and have been very pleased

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Greg Gardner
-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:03:45 -0500 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N We are currently looking at upgrading our current Cisco 1200

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Clark, Joseph K
Charleston, SC 29403 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:56 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N His Joseph