Re: [802SEC] +++urgent ***NEW*** EC Email Ballot approveexpenditure of 68.7k to upgrade the network+++ tentative results

["Rigsbee, Everett O" <everett.o.rigsbee@BOEING.COM>]

Roger,  I'm sorry, I can neither confirm or deny that claim, and should probably not have even mentioned it on our open reflector.  There are much better sources out there than me for this kind of information.  So in the gracious words of Emily Letella, let me just say, "Never Mind !!!"      :-)   

Thanx,  Buzz
Dr. Everett O. (Buzz) Rigsbee
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger B. Marks [mailto:r.b.marks@ieee.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:28 PM
To: Rigsbee, Everett O
Cc: stds-802-sec@ieee.org
Subject: Re: [802SEC] +++urgent ***NEW*** EC Email Ballot approveexpenditure 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
>Boeing IT - SSG
>PO Box 3707, M/S: 7M-FM
>Seattle, WA  98124-2207
>(425) 865-2443    Fx: (425) 865-6721
>Cell: (425) 417-1022
>everett.o.rigsbee@boeing.com
>
>
>
>-----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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