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sanjayamenaka

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What is the best solution for enterprice level access points. We need to buy 3-5 access points for 60-70 users.. If someone experienced.
 
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The layout of your office and the density of your users will dictate the design.

You want to in effect have your users split evenly on all your AP. You will likely have to put multiple AP fairly close together in some areas. You have to plan the channels so they do not interfere which likely means you want to decrease the transmit power on some of the AP.

In general you want devices that can be run on PoE. This allows you to put in them in the ceilings of work areas and not worry about how to get electricity....it also let you run a single UPS instead of worrying about power in every location.

Most the difference between a enterprise product and a consumer product are related to management of the devices. Gets to be a pain...
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bill001g

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The layout of your office and the density of your users will dictate the design.

You want to in effect have your users split evenly on all your AP. You will likely have to put multiple AP fairly close together in some areas. You have to plan the channels so they do not interfere which likely means you want to decrease the transmit power on some of the AP.

In general you want devices that can be run on PoE. This allows you to put in them in the ceilings of work areas and not worry about how to get electricity....it also let you run a single UPS instead of worrying about power in every location.

Most the difference between a enterprise product and a consumer product are related to management of the devices. Gets to be a pain if you have 500 AP and need to add a guest SSID to all of them. The management systems tend to not be cost effective until you get say more than 25 AP.

You should be able to get by with a consumer or small business grade AP.

I would buy a small server nothing to fancy to run a radius authentication on your AP. This is enterprise mode. This solve the issue of having to go in and change the shared password for the SSID every time a employee or contractor leaves.

 
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