Aruba has some pretty large implementations under their belt including Microsoft Corp. Check them out. Tom -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Niels Bakker Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:35 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs] * frnkblk@iname.com (Frank Bulk) [Tue 13 Nov 2007, 14:24 CET]:

If you're going with Extricom you don't need to worry about channel planning beyond adding more "channel blankets".

I understand Foundry's wireless products do the same thing. Seems to work ok but have not heard about larger test cases than a hundred or so clients. * carl@personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) [Tue 13 Nov 2007, 05:56 CET]:

On Wifi for 1000: [..]

In the context of that, you may wish to peruse the proceedings of the last few CCC Congresses in Berlin, which had pretty much working wireless - even with thousands of attendees: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1347-Camp07-NetworkR eview.pdf http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1247-23c3-noc-re view-corrected.pdf http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/652-slides_netwo rk_review.pdf (They're still looking for a sponsor of wireless equipment for this year's edition, by the way) Regards, -- Niels. -- "The Mac doesn't have a one-button mouse, it has a five-button mouse, with four of the buttons on the keyboard." -- Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>