(still catching up on old email, sorry)
On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Dave Molta wrote:
Again, that could indicate that Aruba is also somehow playing foul
as well (Cisco speculated that they might be using a variation of
PCF interframe spacing, though Aruba denied it) but it doesn't look
that way to me.
Come on, we're network engineers not electrical engineers in this forum.
What happened to rough consensus and running code? It's
interoperability
that matters, right? (flame suit in-hand). If your network has no
compatibility issues, would you not use the feature? Engineers face
this issue all the time, I don't think it's anything new.
It's of course hilarious that Vendor C is on the other side of the
standards
fence this time ;-)
I am particuarly concerned about the intersection between private
enterprise WLANs and public metro Wi-Fi networks.
Time will tell, but I estimate that public services offered on crappy
unlicensed bands (where trees eat packets, and interference is king)
will probably fail. The more formally run networks (such as wimax) are
more poised to win, customer-experience-wise, when properly engineered.
It may not be a big problem today but I wonder if it will be a
problem in the future.
If we want to stick to enterprise environments, this may not occur too
frequently except at the periphery. More low-e glass may play a role,
too in newer buildings.
We understand that our tests represent worst-case scenarios that
few enterprises currently experience but sometimes there is value
in pointing out the worst-case situations.
Yes there is. I think we all appreciate your work.
If there's a silver lining here, it may be that 11n is likely to
push most enterprises towards more pervasive 5 GHz deployments,
where co-channel interference is not such a big issue.
I think everybody will move there, it's a problem everywhere including
apartment units, dense subdivisions...
Dale
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