Wireless LANs Face Huge Scaling Challenges

BobB writes with this excerpt from NetworkWorld: "Early WLANs focused on growing the number of access points to cover a given area. But today, many wireless administrators are focusing more attention on scaling capacity to address a surge in end users and the multimedia content they consume (this is particularly being seen at universities). Supporting this involves everything from rethinking DNS infrastructure to developing a deeper understanding of what access points can handle. And 802.11n is no silver bullet, warn those building big wireless networks. 'These scaling issues are becoming more and more apparent where lots of folks show up and you need to make things happen,' says the former IT director for a big Ivy League campus."

Comments

Well duh

[banbeans]

Who would have thought you actually had to plan a network rather than just throw some hardware in place?

PPP==PPP* all over again.

*Piss Poor Planning == Piss Poor Performance

They say use text instead of voice

[alta]

Yeah right. I don't pay for texts. They're .20 if I use them.... If a text was 5k, which I know it's less... that's 1024/5*.20.... over $100 per MB...

If they want us to use text, they're going to have to makei it free.