Free is a hard to put your hands around word for some.
It reminds me of when we upgraded a ton of crt monitors to lcd a few years back, the crt still worked so we wanted to let people that worked at our hospital have them, so we put them at the exit to employee parking, with a sign that said free, but only about 1-2 were taken. So we put a sign that said something like $5 dollar each the next day, and everyone of them were gone before lunch.
There is several ways vendors are getting around the power issue with.11n, by only having one antenna or by doing some software trickery where instead of getting 15.4 watts over every interface you lower the power to a couple and redistribute that power to get it to 18watts , (I know Cisco is doing this on their 3750-E switches and have been told they plan on it on their 4500E switches). Since most companies don't put 30 access points on one switch anyway (would be bad if that switch went out!) that probably will not be an issue, unless you run IP phones that eat a lot of juice also.
What I see as the large issue is that a significant amount of people have only 10/100 to the copper port and to run 802.11n you must have 1Gb copper to provide full bandwidth. (then power the device by how ever you want PoE, injector, wall plug)
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Free is a hard to put your hands around word for some.
It reminds me of when we upgraded a ton of crt monitors to lcd a few years back, the crt still worked so we wanted to let people that worked at our hospital have them, so we put them at the exit to employee parking, with a sign that said free, but only about 1-2 were taken. So we put a sign that said something like $5 dollar each the next day, and everyone of them were gone before lunch.
There is several ways vendors are getting around the power issue with .11n, by only having one antenna or by doing some software trickery where instead of getting 15.4 watts over every interface you lower the power to a couple and redistribute that power to get it to 18watts , (I know Cisco is doing this on their 3750-E switches and have been told they plan on it on their 4500E switches). Since most companies don't put 30 access points on one switch anyway (would be bad if that switch went out!) that probably will not be an issue, unless you run IP phones that eat a lot of juice also.
What I see as the large issue is that a significant amount of people have only 10/100 to the copper port and to run 802.11n you must have 1Gb copper to provide full bandwidth. (then power the device by how ever you want PoE, injector, wall plug)