Lee, It's all about be willing to pay the price of being an early adopter! Is it better to deploy an early 802.11n today and deal with the consequences (two cat5, two 802.3af ports, I wonder if you can etherchannel two 100 Mbps ports for each AP since you bring two cat5 anyway!) or wait for a later 802.11n with 802.3at for power (one cable) and by that time change your HP procurve 10/100 to Gig Switches anyway! Meanwhile deploy a cheap 802.11g infrastructure.
In our case we still deploy 802.11g networks, while waiting for "n" and "at" to settle down (we will have n in a few "advanced building" as pilots) In a world where people downgrade OSes to the previous one, I wouldn't worry too much about being bleeding edge ;-) Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee ---------------------------------- On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Lee Weers wrote: > We are looking at a campus wide wireless deployment, and my supervisor is > pushing for a complete Cisco 1252 with N draft 2.0 capability. We would have > about a total of 250 to 300 AP's in full deployment. Our wired > infrastructure is currently 100% Procurve with about 90% of it being 10/100 > switched. I'd like to know what other schools are doing with 802.11n. > > Thank you, > > Lee Weers > Assistant Director for Network Services > Central College IT Services > (641) 628-7675 > > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
