More power Scotty
At this rate, the PoE power standard won't be sufficient until every AP is empowered to spew out enough energy to wirelessly re-charge any cell phone wandering by.
HPE Aruba today released a line of wireless hotspots supporting next year's 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 standard – and then immediately sullied them by applying the AI marketing buzzword. The Aruba 510 access points, along with "complementary access switches", support the long-in-the-pipeline Wi-Fi 6 standard. That standard was …
>>> automatically power down an AP when there are no user devices connected to it<<<
Remind me again how clients find APs in the first place!
How does this affect the automatic transmit power levelling being used when lots of these boxes are in the same area, do we end up with lots of dead APs and a few working flat out?
"Remind me again how clients find APs in the first place!"
Yes, but the APs that run can signal the controller to turn on some extra APs. After all range typically isn't the problem with high density installations, so you'll have less APs turned on when there are less users/data, with the other APs automatically turning on when there are more users/data.
Since those installations typically have ways to nudge the user into roaming to another AP, that can work rather smoothly.... in theory.