Dear Stan, My editor has me researching a story for Monday's print issue on 802.11n trends in the market and the enterprise especially. A key part of the story is getting some feedback from large-scale 11n sites.
I have a few details on Emory's recent 11n upgrade, based on our previous emails. At the risk of repetition, I was hoping to find out a bit more... - which vendor are you using for 11n? how many 11n APs you have installed, and how they're configured (1 or 2 radios, which bands, 20 or 40 MHz channels etc), and approximate number of 11n clients currently? - Do you see any notable changes between 11abg and 11n, apart from the bandwidth/throughput? - what kind of data rates and throughput are you getting typically from your 11n APs? Do you have a target or minimal throughput for users? - any changes you've made since the initial deployment -- tweaks, configuration changes, etc to optimize throughput or other changes? - were there any accompanying infrastructure changes -- such as 1-Gig Ethernet to the APs, changes in wiring-closet or other switches, new management or security approaches or changes? - how and with what products are you managing the WLAN? - any 11n "best practices" that your team has developed, which you'd be willing to share? Thanks for considering this request. If you prefer, we could talk briefly by phone on Thursday.... Regards, John Cox Senior Editor Network World ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
