Check out http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/44/jump/wireless. shtml IIRC you can take their AeroPOrt 350 stuff and put highly directional antennas on them and get good range from 802.11b.
Good network documentation does indeed require drawings. You need to know logically where things are but also physically where the fiber runs are. When you're in a closet with hundreds of cables and a rack of CSUs if you don't have a drawing you're sunk. The best tool I've seen is actually AutoCAD. The ability to zoom and have multiple layers is great. Plus you can publish them as *.DWF and anybody with a grahpical browser and the plug-in can soom, do layers, etc. Saying one doesn't need drawings is foolish. There is much more to serious networking than just hostnames and IP addresses.
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>Sure, some people will always want a TV for the big game, and for tradition. But think of all the jobs that this may destroy....
It's called Capitalisim. The better mousetrap comes along and people buy it and those companies that can't change and innovate, die.
Check out http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/44/jump/wireless. shtml IIRC you can take their AeroPOrt 350 stuff and put highly directional antennas on them and get good range from 802.11b.
Good network documentation does indeed require drawings. You need to know logically where things are but also physically where the fiber runs are. When you're in a closet with hundreds of cables and a rack of CSUs if you don't have a drawing you're sunk. The best tool I've seen is actually AutoCAD. The ability to zoom and have multiple layers is great. Plus you can publish them as *.DWF and anybody with a grahpical browser and the plug-in can soom, do layers, etc. Saying one doesn't need drawings is foolish. There is much more to serious networking than just hostnames and IP addresses.