McjAziz
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Network Infrastructure for One-to-One
I'm a network engineer at a High School. We're looking into the feasibility of going one-to-one with either iPads or some other mobile device.
We decided to do a bandwidth usage test using our iPad cart. We played youtube videos on 10 of them simultaneously. The bandwidth hogging was almost scary. The 10 of them used almost 90% of our down speed and around 70% of our up speed.
My questions are:
What kind of infrastructure could handle several hundred iPads or laptops? Would we need a T1?
Anyone with experience in this area and advice to give would be greatly appreciated.
We decided to do a bandwidth usage test using our iPad cart. We played youtube videos on 10 of them simultaneously. The bandwidth hogging was almost scary. The 10 of them used almost 90% of our down speed and around 70% of our up speed.
My questions are:
What kind of infrastructure could handle several hundred iPads or laptops? Would we need a T1?
Anyone with experience in this area and advice to give would be greatly appreciated.
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I just use it to block content. You would want to do traffic shaping at your core switch or firewall. BTW, I have about 600 iPads/iPods/Android devices deployed and have no issues with internet.
agreed, a T1 is only 1.5MB. bandwidth is much cheape rnow than what it was a few years ago. A year or so ago I was paying $400 a month for a 10MB line, I think the 20MB line was a little less than half that.
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In our building, we get 30down/40up. It just seems a little hard to believe that with 10 ipads bringing the bandwidth down to 2d/14u we'll be able to support the (hoped for) 350.
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Thanks Mcsween. That sounds very helpful. I'll get on that asap.
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What about access points and wireless controllers? Recommendations? The device density we're looking at could be in the range of 30-50+ devices on a given AP at any time.
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