[CWN-Summit] Seeking advice on low-cost mesh node wifi in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

[Stephen Ronan]

Good point. I don't have the relevant experience to be able to vouch for 
Meraki's continuing efficacy with more than a hundred nodes all 
interlinked on the same channel and network in a compact neighborhood. I 
haven't tried it and would be wary of doing so. At the same time, it 
would seem that, in most circumstances, if one started to see problems 
over a certain density, one could  start to use additional networks 
using separate channels. A while back, with a network of close to a 
hundred Netgear WGT634U devices running Roofnet in a single housing 
development, we needed to separate a cluster of the centrally located 
ones onto a separate channel and that worked well.
I'm not sure what exactly Meraki is doing for its mile square or larger 
deployments <http://meraki.com/solutions/business/municipal/>... whether 
devices are all on the same network running on the same channel, how 
many devices they consider adequate for such a deployment, what 
experience they have with highly concentrated networks with a great many 
devices in a single very dense residential neighborhood...
   - Stephen


L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> Stephen Ronan wrote:
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>> Could you write the proposal so as to give yourself some latitude in
>> regard to what equipment you'd use? Meraki is a mature product that
>> works extremely well now.
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> Stephen, I was more thinking of hundreds of nodes ...
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