Not sure what the T in BYOT stands for (am I the only one?) As for your issue, if you need to support 700 devices, then you need to do the math to achieve this. You need to know what the device types are going to be. Once you have the math part figured out, then you need to design the wireless to try and make the math actually work from an RF perspective. The math part can be figured out roughly via the following: http://www.revolutionwifi.net/capacity-planner I can't fill that part out for you since only you will know what your going to have to support. Off the cuff, depending on what type of traffic/application/devices being used, it could range anywhere from 6 access points to 12 (maybe more?). I'm not saying you need 12, but depending on what your trying to do you might is the issue. Are all 700 devices actively and concurrently using the wireless at the same time etc. This will be difficult to achieve if all you have is an open auditorium with just internal model access points along the wall. Even if you had 10, there isn't any real way to control which AP the clients will connect to. An AP might have 150 clients, and the other might only have 30. This can be achieved by using directional antenna, power, channel assignments, and possibly some RX-SOP to 'force' clients to connect to the AP they should be (this will break your roaming, but for auditoriums this may not matter since people are sitting in seats using the devices [assumption]. You need to go out of your way to ensure that there is channel re-use, basically meaning that no two access points are using the same channel. I would plan for 5GHz only, but if you have to use 2.4 then make sure you only have it enabled on three access points. Unless of course there is a coverage issue then, you'd rather have coverage with contention than no contention and coverage issues. If this is something that you inherited you might want to look at hiring a 3rd party company that specializes in this. There is a lot that can go wrong if you don't know what you are doing, and if your the one that is responsible for the success of this then you might want some insurance 😃
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