[Server-devel] Help on the School_server

[John Watlington]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:50 AM, eskender andualem wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We are  trying to configure the school server in Ethiopia but we  
> found some documents which says we can only support
> <120 computers with one school server and three active antennas.Is  
> it the only capacity which we can support with one
> school server.We have like 2500 students in one school  so what can  
> we do?

Eskender,
   The challenges presented by 2500 students in a single school are  
very large.
We cannot recommend deploying to such a school at this time.

This deployment will require a large number of wireless access  
points, plus the
networking infrastructure to interconnect them.    Any attempts to  
minimize this
necessary infrastructure will result in poor or no connectivity.    
I'm cc'ing Michail
Bletsas, who can provide additional information about the challenges  
here.

On the server side, we do not have an "off the shelf" solution for  
you.  It will
take a experienced Linux and network systems engineer to adapt what we
have available to a school that large.

Is there are sub-units within the school, which make it a group of  
smaller schools
sharing a wireless network ?

John