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AKLEPPER,
My experience with the Extricom product was as recently as mid 2008. I also recall that oddly enough all the Switches I ever touched regardless of port density were equipped Fast Ethernet ports essentially creating a 100 Mbps bottleneck at the Wireless Switch.

Now on to your question. You are up against the design limitation of doing WiFi on a large scale (or dense scale) in the 2.4 Ghz spectrum with AP's utilizing Omnidirectional Antennas.

The solution to your problem is to get as many of your stations as possible into the 5 Ghz spectrum where there are ample non overlapping channels and utlizing higher gain directional antennas to eliminate hidden node and other issues.

Using this approach you can greatly increase the throughput of your WLAN over what you are proposing.