Re: Wireless @ D.C. IETF

["Andrew G. Malis" <amalis at lucent.com>]

Doug and John,

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reconsider and have DS available.  It's what the rest 
of the world is using (especially at other similar meetings).  And while I 
use NT, support for other OSes is much better on DS than FS (as you've 
found).  I originally saw DS on the web page and had been very happy .... 
otherwise I guess I'm going to have to borrow an FS card rather than use my 
own DS card (I just reserved one on the web page).

Thanks,
Andy

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At 08:25 PM 10/11/1999 -0400, Doug Moeller wrote:
> We have no plans right now to support DS.  We chose to provide FH instead of
> DS because we are able to scale an FH network better.  Though DS has a
> higher throughput then FH,  it doesn't scale so well when we have a large
> number of users in a small geographic area.  With FH we can deploy multiple
> Access Points in a relatively small area and load balance across them.    We
> are binging 500 NIC's for sale/loan so scalability is a chief concern.
> Since FH and DS use the same spectrum, deploying both could prove to be
> ugly.  I think there is a plan to support the older proprietary Wavelan
> stuff. (It uses a different spectrum)
>
>
>                         -Doug

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