RE:RE:RE:RE:TRADES-Love that last tradebirch1 wrote: LOL, and by the way guys, Apple aint buying this company. There are some that would suggest they will and some that suggest they won't all based on their own DD. Lets put it out to the board again.. Apple buys, or apple does not and why in both cases. Lots of smart people apparently on this board and lots of smart answers. Lots of people, daily posters have an opinion. Lets see them.
I don't think Apple will by them, and frankly it would be the death of the tech if they do. Apple is insanely popular in the consumer space, but is NOT an enterprise product. A standard AP will do nicely in a residential environment. They can handle 10-20 devices at high speed without any problems that your average user will notice. NOT the place for a high-density AP.
There's been press lately (think someone may have posted a link here but won't swear to it) that some carriers in the US are actually starting to make residential APs available as hot spots to other subscribers. If there's an increase in that, OR, the push for free muni-wifi (an entire city with free wifi available to citizens) continues (Vancouver is apparently looking at it, Toronto Hydro tried it, kinda, Mississauga has a MAJOR wifi network) then we'll see a major demand for HD wifi. To put it in perspective, I've seen the numbers to make wifi available in a mid-size city's downtown with conventional equipment, and it was a mindblowing 150 APs (150k+ just in HARDWARE, not including installation, antennas, access, maint), just for COVERAGE. Keeping in mind that you can only handle around 5000-8000 devices with all those APs, you're looking at even more if you want to have any kind of user acceptance.
Now, if you look at the EW equipment at 100+ users per AP, the SAME NUMBER of APs will support 15000+ devices... pretty good advantage over most of the competitors.
Look forward to seeing what some real tests show!
Do your own DD, etc, etc...