there's a good presentation on a large (1200ap's) campus wirelss network here...
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/hanset.html On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, R. Simkins wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a new member, studying in England, my thesis is in WLAN Security Management. > > I have an assignment to implement a LAN for a Uni campus. I have persuaded my group > to look at a WLAN overlay on a fibre backbone solution. Would this be suitable? For > speed and interference I would think 802.11a. However, I am worried about the true > throughput achievable. If for example, we use a fibre backbone with Cat5 connecting > APs, would it provide campus grade network speeds? Some depts have been specified as > 'high bandwidth' and I am considering keeping those wired ethernet (100Mbps), as > with the external accounting building (for security reasons). > > Please let me know if you think my spec could be better. > > The number of users is 2,000, up to ~150 per floor in certain buildings. Cost is not > limited. > > p.s. I would really appreciate any security guru's to say hello as I have a lot of > questions to ask (when I get around to my thesis!). I am currently worrying that my > thesis will be completed just as TGi produce their draft. So any knowledgeable > tip-offs as to what it may include would be much appreciated, thanks. > > Rob > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
