Re: [802SEC] +++urgent ***NEW*** EC Email Ballot approve expenditure of 68.7k to upgrade the network+++ tentative results
Buzz,
I am highly skeptical that an 802.11a/b/g AP could be
firmware-upgraded to 802.11n compliance. If you think this is a
realistic claim, then I'd like to see it in more detail.
Are you talking about a hardware upgrade? That's within reason,
depending on the design.
Roger
At 04:17 PM -0800 06/02/27, Rigsbee, Everett O wrote:
>Hi Pat, OK, for one more question: Pat, the good news is, as I
>understand it, that the new AP1242s are already designed to be
>firmware upgradeable to support the 802.11n NextGen standard, which
>provides >100Mb/s through-put (not just data rate) so I would expect
>that we would get significantly longer service life than the 3 years
>we got with the AP1231s that needed a hardware upgrade to support
>802.11a at 54Mb/s max data rate. Products do tend to get better and
>cheaper as we get further along on the learning curve. But I do
>think you are exactly right that we should establish an ongoing
>budgetary amount for equipment upgrades per session so we don't have
>to rely on raising dues to raise money for equipment upgrades over
>time. When you consider all our other equipment (e.g. LCD
>Projectors, Printers, Notebook computers, etc.) I think we might
>actually want to have a $10K per session budgetary amount to keep us
>on an even schedule.
>
>More questions ??? Fire away. :-)
>
>Thanx, Buzz
>Dr. Everett O. (Buzz) Rigsbee
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pat Thaler [mailto:pthaler@BROADCOM.COM]
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:24 AM
>To: STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org
>Subject: Re: [802SEC] +++urgent ***NEW*** EC Email Ballot approve
>expenditure of 68.7k to upgrade the network+++ tentative results
>
>
>In making this purchase, we are replacing (or at least relegating to
>a back-up role) APs that we bought three years ago because of
>features/modes that they lack. Is this what we need to expect long
>term
>- i.e. in order to have an adequately up to date network we will
>find we have to roll the equipment about every three years? Do we
>need to budget 25K a year or 8K a plenary for equipment?
>
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