I'm curious what the largest *successful* deployment has been (measured in number of participants in a single room/hall/stadium/...) that anybody has seen, within the IETF or beyond. The NYC article hints at the fact that the limit may be hotel fiber, rather than wireless, in some cases. We seem to have more experience with dimensioning those than other organizations. On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf