I mean... For the time being, we've only got 10 Gbit/s leaving the campus, and we have serious difficulty coming anywhere close to saturating it. We're not a huge campus.
I don't see us needing this for a long time. -- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBRH M-9B +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure I am part of the UAH Safe Zone LGBTQIA support network: http://www.uah.edu/student-affairs/safe-zone On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Hinson, Matthew P <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve seen a few articles here and there regarding possible solutions for > “the gigabit bottleneck” as it pertains to .11ac access points. Said > solutions include Cisco’s forthcoming protocols for 2.5G and 5G over CAT5 > cabling as well as LACP’ing two gigabit ports per switch and AP as some > vendors suggest... > > > > My question for the group is: Has anyone actually seen a throughput issue > using gigabit to the edge? Certainly your distribution layer gear could be a > limitation if it’s not specced correctly, but I’ve just never seen a > situation where I’ve wished for more than 1000BASE-T to an AP. Our fastest > 802.11ac access points can “only” hit 600-700mbit/s real TCP throughput, and > that’s in ideal, almost laboratory conditions. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thank you! > > Matthew Hinson > > Network Operations > > ********** 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/.
