We pull one 6a also. That makes enough of us to drink together comfortably at the next Educause party.
Most of our APs are one 5e. As well discussed, I also expect GE to be sufficient for a number of years, but I never bet against more bandwidth (we consume 3 orders of magnitude more WAN bandwidth than from when I started my career). Power use to be my concern driving the consideration for two cables (and I think we have that in several buildings), but not with the new POE standards. Given the amount of 5e out there (thinking beyond WiFi), the magic of market forces will likely provide additional "options" for more bandwidth across 5e (just look at the "options" for Cat 3 as ugly as they might be). 10G capable ports on APs will be an after-thought in 4-5 years. Vendors would have to look hard to find chips that don't do 100/1000/10000 (etched glass, moore's law, all that). If I had the funds, I would consider two, but I don't have funds or pathways/facility space. Should other tech (60GHz, LiFi, UWB [time-domain, not that lazy standard]) gain wide adoption, we'll all be sad, because two cables at a location probably won't help much in relation to the scale of the new "challenge". -- William C. Green e-mail: [email protected] Director, Networking and Telecommunications phone: +1 512-475-9295 ITS (Information Technology Services) fax: +1 512-471-2449 University of Texas 1 University Station Stop C3800 Austin, TX 78712 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
