At 01:52 PM 3/16/2006, Philippe Hanset wrote:
How will all these W-acronyms blades and appliances deal with the
load generated by 802.11n?
In our case, we are planning to deploy the WiSM (a controller
embedded on a blade for a 6500 series switch). When we asked about
scalability of the Airespace decentralized model (at least in terms
of the WiSM), we were told that we could expect to manage up to 300
APs per WiSM blade and that it would not be a performance bottleneck
for this population. Of course, everything works great in PowerPoint!
Does it mean that 2 years from now not only will you have to replace
APs but also all those W-controllers?
It may mean that you have to buy more controllers to manage the same
quantity of APs. In the end, I doubt you will get any vendor to
answer that question (without chuckling).
Scott Genung
Manager of Networking Systems
Telecommunications and Networking
Illinois State University
124 Julian Hall
Normal, IL 61790-3500
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Phone: (309)438-7258
Web: http://www.telecom.ilstu.edu
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