[c-nsp] advice for L2 switches

[Frank Bulk]

How do people sustain 4 Mbps?  I'm no gamer, but that seems a bit on the
high side.

Frank 

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:21 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] advice for L2 switches

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Jason LeBlanc wrote:

> This may be a dumb question, but why not wifi?  If its laptops, most
> will have the adapter built in, and a few usb adapters on the cheap for
> the rest, and a few ethernet ports for those that really need copper.

At the 5k people lanparties the aggregated bandwidth used is in the
10-20gigabit/s range. For 500 people I'd make sure I could move at least
1-2 gigs/s total, which means wireless will not work.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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