Hi Lee.
We would not be able to install the current Cisco n product in many of
our current our new construction spaces without hiding the AP and
using custom antenna. Cisco "says" they have a product on the line
that looks like the 1130, which is our main deployment product right
now. Maybe by the time "n" is actually ready there will be options to
the 1250. We still get comments (meant to be negative) about some of
our early 1200 series deployments that used the "rubber-duckie" antenna.
Phil
On Jan 17, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Lee H Badman wrote:
At risk of sounding silly- is anyone wrestling with the appearance
of early 11n products? Contrast any of the current offerings with
the MIMO antennas versus the likes of the Cisco 1130 (integrated
antennas) from an aesthetics perspective, and the 11n stuff seems
ugly and utilitarian. For us, we often need to get the architect’s
blessing on “fixtures” like this in new spaces, and the 1130 has
been an easy sell because it’s not more obtrusive than a smoke
detector. I don’t see any of the current crop off 11n APs being
considered visually appealing to anyone other than us geek types.
I wonder if 11n future APs will be able to do MIMO but still be
“pretty”?
Lee
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
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