bertanis@gmail.com wrote:
> My group will be trying to deploy a large area wi-fi network

Howe large is "large? Size of an indoor football stadium?

> 1 - Our set-up will cover the hole place using 802.11n on "fat" access
> points (we have no thin APs).

Never heard of that. Can you elaborate on what a fat and thin AP is?

> 2 - People will be allowed to bring their own APs. Our major concearn
> here is that these APs may interfere with ours (or with each other).
> ITOH, we wouldn't like to forbid people to bring their own APs. Is
> there a middle-ground? Maybe mesh networks?

How are the visiting APs going even going to connect to the wired
network?

Mesh with mixed models of AP? Are you prepared to make this a term
project?