We have not yet begun our full-campus deployment,
but our plan is to deploy open B/G everywhere, and enable A where open B/G
doesn't meet our performance or security needs. The expectation is that
students and random users will have B/G client equipment, and that we will
purchase A client equipment where needed.
Depending on which vendor we wind up with, we *may*
end up putting A/B/G APs everywhere and just enabling A in the areas where it's
needed; if we wind up with a vendor where the price difference is large, we
might not deploy A except where need exists.
David Gillett
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From: Nolan Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11a
Here at FHSU we just finished deploying 250+ AP's to cover the majority of our campus. We enabled 802.11 A/B/G on our network with the understand that the majority of our students will be using B/G. However we are purchasing all university laptops to be A/B/G and are setting them to prefer 802.11 A If anything this well help with load on the network, by not having university owned machines and student machines competing for bandwidth. I don't foresee any additional support problems from deploying A. I consider the additional amount of channels to provide more separation to be a great feature of A.
Nolan Banks
FHSU Wireless Network Administrator
(785) 628-5688
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