Cisco lifts the lid on female-recruitment drive 
Published: 29 Jan 2008 17:14 GMT
Four-thousand notebook-bearing delegates provided high demands on the infrastructure at the venue, Barcelona's vast International Convention Centre.
A joint effort between Cisco and cabling company Systimax saw several kilometres of fibre installed as an overlay to the venue's existing infrastructure. One-hundred switches, two mobility controllers and 25 wireless access points provided the connectivity, which was almost ubiquitous across the venue.
Cisco based the wireless network on its new 802.11n-based access point, the Aironet 1250, was launched in September 2007.












