On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Ali wrote: > Hello Techies , > We are a company based in Mumbai (India) , With a total strength of 600 > odd users currently. > We are coming up with our new facility in Mumbai which can house more > than 1200 people. > Out of the total strength 75% people are laptop users. We would be using > Wifi as our secondary source for connectivity. > I need your suggestions for which industrial grade Wifi equipments we > should opt for . > Currently we have shortlisted Cisco's 1131 and Hp Procurve's 53ww and > MSM 320WW respectively. > Please help us with your valuable feedback and suggestions.
with that many people in a small area you are going to have a lot of interesting issues just based on the number of radios. you will want to do something that has lots of small cells to try and minimize this. one company to look at is Xirrus. they make systems designed for such high-density uses. they have AP's that have up to 24 radios in them, each with directional antennas so that they split up the area into seperate slices, and covering 802.11a/b/g/n. the high end APs have two gig-E wired ports that can be trunked to better handle the aggregate bandwidth that all these radios can generate. they are not cheap (their fully loaded access point can run as high as $8K) but they have put a lot of effort and engineering into figuring out how to make things work in a high-density environment. they are providing the wifi access at a lot of trade shows nowdays (part of their advertising), and as part of their marketing material they have a set of 6 11"x22" posters that go over a lot of details of how wifi works that are very worthwhile to get your hands on. their website is not responding to me at the moment, but it's www.xirrus.com David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
