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Which cisco access point?

subarayarsooper
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  • I need to connect 8 college classes with 50 students per class connecting to the access point. Please suggest me the model and numbers if possible.
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Thank you for your reply.
We are positioning 8 APs for 8 classes. All are C9105AXI-EWC. If you saying
that to have redundancy, here we using 8 access points in the little
spaces. I am assuming that you are known about college buildings. The 8
classes continuosly places between 500 meters.
Is this works?

JPavonM
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1 AP per classroom is the ususal design for this type of deployments.

If you say that 50 users will be connecting simultaneously to 1-AP, and so on for 8 APs in total, again it all depend on the traffic type. If it is 50 users for the 8 APs, then that is right.

By the way, do not configure all C9105 as eWLC and only use 2 of them (primary and secondary) as best practice.

Sorry for mistake. Not only 50 users. 50 users per class is my setup.

JPavonM
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As previously said, it all depend on the concurrent active connections, the traffic type and bandwidth in use.

You can start by deploying only 1-C9105 per classroom, monitor it, and then decide whether if it would be necesary to add more APs or not. Another interesting deployment would be to stagger APs to both sides fof the main corridor and add a couple of additional APs at the end of the rows, or another similar scenario where you could provide redundancy and split connections into classrooms between multiple nearby APs. By the way, don't forget to use @20MHz channel widths so to avoid channel overlap and increase capacity.

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Rich R
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Meraki has a nice design guide which will explain more of some of the things @JPavonM has been trying to explain to you - the AP capacity is not determined purely by the number of users - the concurrent application bandwidth requirement is all important.  If you have 50 users trying to get HD video stream at the same time from 1 AP it will not work.  And you should always allow some headroom.
https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Meraki_Campus_LAN%3B_Planning%2C_Design_Guidelines_and_Best_Practices
https://documentation.meraki.com/Architectures_and_Best_Practices/Cisco_Meraki_Best_Practice_Design/Best_Practice_Design_-_MR_Wireless/High_Density_Wi-Fi_Deployments#Capacity_Planning

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