I've read through their paper carefully and interacted with its author. I'm willing to engage in discussion in regards to specifics off-line, but my 30kft impressions were that it lacked test results to back up their claims and some of the assessments of their competitor's technology were sometimes more speculative than factual.
That said, it engages the topic in more detail than anything I've read to date. After reading the whitepaper those who are doubters of Meru's technology need to remember that their product is more than vaporware -- it's in production in hundreds of sites, some of them quite dense (APs/clients/usage). Aruba did a good job identifying the challenges that some clients (specifically VoFi handsets) face in a SCA deployment and I believe that enterprises ought to communicate with SCA vendors to make sure any client concerns are aired and addressed. I wish it was easier to evaluate the performance (not only aggregrate throughput, but also QoS) of the MCA and SCA products in various scenarios and density and usage, but unfortunately examining the impact of co-channel interference on a large scale in variety of building types and architectures with lots of APs and clients with realistic traffic patterns (in terms of type and longitudinally over time) is not currently possible with the tools available. I think we would learn that there certain scenarios where one performs generally better over another. Frank -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Eklund Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open Wireless in Higher Ed It¹s interesting, but it¹s all theory. I don¹t see any data in this paper. -- Daniel Eklund Director, Network Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 Phone: 313-577-5558 Fax: 313-577-5577 From: "Johnson, Bruce T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv ********** 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/.
