On Wed Aug 26 2015 13:02:49 CDT, Hunter Fuller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Of course I can't speak for everyone, and I don't know that I would
> lay out an SLA saying wireless will be up 99.999% of the time or
> anything, but it just doesn't seem as fragile as one might think
> initially.

The next problem is uniformly defining uptime for an enterprise/campus-wide 
service.  How does the failure of a single AP (or a single switch if you're 
talking wired networking) impact your uptime number?  The issue is even more 
nebulous for wireless since I would bet in most cases if you have a single AP 
out in most of our buildings, there's still some residual connectivity 
available from other nearby APs.  


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