Dave, I think you will find that our NOC people have a great deal of experience and perhaps even a list of do's and don'ts for this type of design. In the end, this technology will not scale without bonds if we're talking about n-thousand people sitting in a plenary hall, but there are obviously a lot that can be done with a distribution of multiple lower-powered (configured as such) units that don't use overlapping channels, use of various 802.11 flavors (a, n, etc) and more SSIDs, all in the name of load sharing. While there may not be a document, and I agree that it would be useful to have one, there is certainly a collective body of knowledge on this topic (including a "never again use base stations from xxxx.."). Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Dave CROCKER wrote: > Time for a BCP? > > > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/technology/29wifi.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25> > > > The problem is that Wi-Fi was never intended for large halls and > > thousands of people, many of them bristling with an arsenal of > > laptops, > > > I don't recall seeing a document on this and the IETF track record has been > quite good. > > We should share the joy. > > d/ > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf