I spent quite a while on this with a couple of larger multi-vendor WAP distributors and they have clients of the big exhibition centres and music venues, and they use extremely steerable APs with shielding, much as you do with an audio line array if you are familiar, and don't have anywhere near the number of users per AP you are citing.
Since then we took on a football stadium and following their advice were deploying active densities in the order of half the numbers you are suggesting as the ACK time and in air RF interference / xtalk destroys throughput otherwise. Hope that helps.. Peter Knapp From: uknof [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil J. McRae Sent: 09 December 2014 11:31 To: Richard Savage Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uknof] High Density Wifi I used their equipment as a $user rather than operator (couple of events) and was impressed - then had a bit of a play with the, I think, 6000 AP at MWC. Not deployed but on the shortlist to look at further - don't really see many folks taking this approach. On 9 Dec 2014, at 10:30, Richard Savage <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Im currently looking at some high density Wifi to support greater than 500 users per AP, probably looking in the region of 1 to 2 thousand per AP. Is there any manufactures that people have used before and would recommend? Have come across Xirrus and wondered what people thought of them? Many thanks Rich This e-mail is sent on behalf of Timico Partner Services Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, registered number 03128506, registered office Beacon Hill Park, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2TN and regulated by Ofcom. The information in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the use of that individual or entity to which it is addressed. Unauthorised use, dissemination, distribution, publication or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this in error, please notify us by email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and delete any copies. For information about how we process data and monitor communications please see our privacy statement<http://www.timico.co.uk/downloads/terms/Privacy_Statement.pdf>.
