I am trying to source Router and AP for our company, office with 80 people in 3500 Square Feet. That is ~90 Wired Connections, and a potential of 100 Wireless Users with Phone, Tablet and Laptop.
My first question is how do SME / Enterprise Router works? Brands like Ubnt, Aruba or Rackus? Consumers Router's antenna are Omni-Directional, and with 3x3 antenna 802.11ac giving out a total bandwidth of 1750.
In a consumer scenario, where you have a few devices, you can share the 1750mbps bandwidth, since most mobile devices only has 2x2 and you are unlikely to be using it all at the same time. It wouldn't be much of a problem. Even with recent increase of one Mobile phones per family member, MU-MIMO will ease the problem.
But what happens on a SME AP? When 10s or even 100s of users are using it at the same time? It seems even with direction antenna wouldn't solve the problem. ( and would potentially cause coverage problem?? ) And even if you increase the amount of AP, lowering to 20 - 33 per AP. How do AP deals with it? Sharing the same 1750 with 33 clients? And why dont SME APs have 8x8 antenna? What number of maximum users should i be aiming at per APs? Wouldn't placing too many APs causes interference?
And is Wireless Roaming a standard features for all APs and Routers? I see Ubnt has something called Zero Handoff and Rackus has something similar but different name. But allows near zero packet drop when switching APs, ( Which is handy but i dont think i need ), normal Wireless Roaming with same SSID will do, but this information isn't avaible on the website. ( or Hidden )
It seems most of the information available on the internet are focused on consumers with very little on SME.
I understand for solution like this I will need to get a certified IT vendor to set up. I am not sure if I could do it myself just buying from Ubnt, but most of this questions has to do with my curiosity. I will very much like to know some of the details behind it.
P.S - I am not a professional engineer, so please keep it High Level overview if possible.
My first question is how do SME / Enterprise Router works? Brands like Ubnt, Aruba or Rackus? Consumers Router's antenna are Omni-Directional, and with 3x3 antenna 802.11ac giving out a total bandwidth of 1750.
In a consumer scenario, where you have a few devices, you can share the 1750mbps bandwidth, since most mobile devices only has 2x2 and you are unlikely to be using it all at the same time. It wouldn't be much of a problem. Even with recent increase of one Mobile phones per family member, MU-MIMO will ease the problem.
But what happens on a SME AP? When 10s or even 100s of users are using it at the same time? It seems even with direction antenna wouldn't solve the problem. ( and would potentially cause coverage problem?? ) And even if you increase the amount of AP, lowering to 20 - 33 per AP. How do AP deals with it? Sharing the same 1750 with 33 clients? And why dont SME APs have 8x8 antenna? What number of maximum users should i be aiming at per APs? Wouldn't placing too many APs causes interference?
And is Wireless Roaming a standard features for all APs and Routers? I see Ubnt has something called Zero Handoff and Rackus has something similar but different name. But allows near zero packet drop when switching APs, ( Which is handy but i dont think i need ), normal Wireless Roaming with same SSID will do, but this information isn't avaible on the website. ( or Hidden )
It seems most of the information available on the internet are focused on consumers with very little on SME.
I understand for solution like this I will need to get a certified IT vendor to set up. I am not sure if I could do it myself just buying from Ubnt, but most of this questions has to do with my curiosity. I will very much like to know some of the details behind it.
P.S - I am not a professional engineer, so please keep it High Level overview if possible.