: [WIRELESS-LAN] FW: Outsourcing WiFi to Apogee
I'm curious to hear how folks are handling APs in their dorms including with
outside contractors like Apogee? Are you able to put APs in the dorm room
themselves or are you restricted to the hallways? How do you protect the APs
from normal student wear
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FW: Outsourcing WiFi to Apogee
I'm curious to hear how folks are handling APs in their dorms including with
outside contractors like Apogee? Are you able to put APs in the dorm room
themselves or are you restricted
The first wireless dorm deployment(8 years ago) put all of our AP's in
the hallways, but the signal doesn't reach the outer parts of the
building where the student's desk are, especially the 5ghz. We are
slowly moving AP's into their rooms, but then students complained about
the lights
*From: *Larry W Jennings ljenn...@utk.edu
*To: *WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Sent: *Friday, November 1, 2013 8:00:47 AM
*Subject: *Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FW: Outsourcing WiFi to Apogee
Andy,
At UT Knoxville, we went from AP’s in hallways to AP’s in some dorm
rooms
We're moving from hallway deployments, which had definite signal issues for
difficult buildings, to in room Aruba 93H AP's. This microcell approach
has gotten good feedback from the students, and hasn't increased the
overall cost to deploy wireless.
Since it's in the student rooms, they are
Perhaps this re-hashed discussion of in-room as opposed to in hallway
placement should have a different topic.
Are there any more people who have either out-sourced or are considering
outsourcing provisioning and management of dorm/apartment networking for
a campus?
Peter Murphy
Director
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FW
I'm curious to hear how folks are handling APs in their dorms including
with outside contractors like Apogee? Are you able to put APs in the
dorm room themselves or are you restricted to the hallways? How do you
protect the APs from normal student wear and tear?
Kitri Waterman
--
Network
We are able to put APs in rooms if we wanted, but opted to put them in hallways
to limit the amount we would need to deploy, as well as making replacements
easier. We will occasionally put an access point in a room if we have to, but
it not typically necessary.
We have been lucky so far,
We did a pilot this semester with an Aruba AP with extra wired ports on the AP
in every room. So far so good. The AP's are on a list of items that is
checked at the end of the semester. If they are missing or damaged by the
student then they are responsible. So far the only issues are them
On 10/31/2013 6:53 PM, Andy Page wrote:
We are able to put APs in rooms if we wanted, but opted to put them in
hallways to limit the amount we would need to deploy, as well as
making replacements easier. We will occasionally put an access point
in a room if we have to, but it not typically
I've found that now that students live and die by wireless, self preservation
keeps them from touching the access points. We've had them in our dorms for
close to 10 years, and haven't had any vandalized yet.
--
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Kitri
We also started with hallway deployments, but have had the same experience with
the controllers basing their settings on an open environment. So into the
rooms the APs go...
-Chris
On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote:
On 10/31/2013 6:53 PM, Andy Page wrote:
We
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] FW: Outsourcing WiFi to Apogee
Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 7:35 PM
We also started with hallway deployments, but have had the same experience with
the controllers basing their settings on an open environment. So into the
rooms the APs go...
-Chris
On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:04
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