Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

[Jake Snyder]

I'll be there, honing in on Sam's shameless plug ;)

Thanks
Jake Snyder


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> On Feb 18, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Samuel Clements  wrote:
> 
> I'll be there and would love to meet all of you!
> 
> 
> I'll be doing a podcast on Tuesday and Wednesday evening and I'll be 
> presenting a session on Thursday - looking forward to seeing everyone!
> 
> 
>   -Sam
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Brad Weldon  wrote:
>> I'll be there for the conference. My first time for WLPC. 
>> 
>> - - - - - 
>> Brad Weldon
>> Network Engineer
>> George Fox University
>> - - - - - 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Norman Elton  wrote:
>>> Anyone going to the WLPC in Phoenix this year?
>>> 
>>> http://wlanpros.com/WLPC2016
>>> 
>>> I'd be happy to line up a higher ed get-together if anyone else is going.
>>> 
>>> Norman Elton
>>> College of William & Mary
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

[Samuel Clements]

I'll be there and would love to meet all of you!


I'll be doing a podcast on Tuesday and Wednesday evening and I'll be
presenting a session on Thursday - looking forward to seeing everyone!


  -Sam

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Brad Weldon  wrote:

> I'll be there for the conference. My first time for WLPC.
>
> - - - - -
> Brad Weldon
> Network Engineer
> George Fox University
> - - - - -
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Norman Elton  wrote:
>
>> Anyone going to the WLPC in Phoenix this year?
>>
>> http://wlanpros.com/WLPC2016
>>
>> I'd be happy to line up a higher ed get-together if anyone else is going.
>>
>> Norman Elton
>> College of William & Mary
>>
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] tablet for site survey work

[Ron Mirabile]

Yes, we're using Ekahau 8.5.

-Ron

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John York
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] tablet for site survey work

Is Ekahu the software of choice?
Thanks
John

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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] tablet for site survey work

We have a Microsoft Surface Book and use as a convertible for site surveys.  So 
far it works well and the stylus is great for surveys.  


Ron Mirabile
Network and Telecom Services
Network Engineer – Wireless
541.346.7223



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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] tablet for site survey work

Anyone have an recommendations for a tablet for site survey work?

-- 
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Network Design Engineer
Office of Information Technology
University of Minnesota
2218 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

[Brad Weldon]

I'll be there for the conference. My first time for WLPC.

- - - - -
Brad Weldon
Network Engineer
George Fox University
- - - - -

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Norman Elton  wrote:

> Anyone going to the WLPC in Phoenix this year?
>
> http://wlanpros.com/WLPC2016
>
> I'd be happy to line up a higher ed get-together if anyone else is going.
>
> Norman Elton
> College of William & Mary
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

[Todd M. Hall]

I'll be attending WLPC only.  I'd be interested in a get-together as well.

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Norman Elton wrote:


Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:27:23 -0600
From: Norman Elton 
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

To: WIRELESS-LAN@listserv.educause.edu
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

Anyone going to the WLPC in Phoenix this year?

http://wlanpros.com/WLPC2016

I'd be happy to line up a higher ed get-together if anyone else is going.

Norman Elton
College of William & Mary

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Mississippi State University
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

[Williams, Jess]

I'll be attending the CWNA training this weekend and the conference.  I'm 
interested in a get-together during the week.

Jess Williams

Wireless Network Administrator
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Helping Students Achieve Excellence through Technology
jess-willi...@utc.edu
423-425-2372


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[WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Norman Elton 
[normel...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:27 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

Anyone going to the WLPC in Phoenix this year?

http://wlanpros.com/WLPC2016

I'd be happy to line up a higher ed get-together if anyone else is going.

Norman Elton
College of William & Mary

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RE: Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

[Chris Adams (IT)]

I think this is very likely the case. In the end, it’s a pretty sweet deal for 
the carriers – reducing the amount of infrastructure they are responsible for 
in the future, and incidentally transferring some of the responsibility for 
quality of the call/SMS/MMS experience onto those who provide wireless (802.11) 
service, whether they want it or not. This will create additional impetus on 
networking professionals to continue improving wireless networks. 

 

I believe we will see a new market emerge for systems/appliances they help 
optimize the VoWifi experience (managed QoS in a box, anyone?). Of course it 
will be implemented at the expense of the wireless (802.11) provider, while the 
carriers collect the revenue.

 

Is anyone actively monitoring the impact of VoWifi on your networks, or had 
complaints/comments pertaining to call quality from these services?

 

Also, are there being any discussions happening on your campuses about the 
potential life-safety implications of these calls being offloaded onto campus 
wireless networks?

 

Thanks,

 

Chris Adams

 

Director, Network & Telecom Services

Division of Information Technology

University of North Georgia

E-Mail:   chris.ad...@ung.edu | Office: (706) 
867-2891

 

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chuck Enfield
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 5:19 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

 

I think the time for new indoor DAS deployments in most buildings has passed.  
If you’ve already invested in a head-end, it may be worthwhile to expand it.  
If you haven’t done it yet, now is not the time to start.  Avoid anything you 
can possibly avoid until Wi-Fi calling and SMS makes indoor cellular coverage 
moot (could be a 3 to 5 years to 90% penetration in some markets).  Keep 
spending low by addressing anything you can’t avoid with OTA systems (no 
head-end) or femtocells.  Improve your Wi-Fi network with what you would have 
spent on DAS.

 

I don’t anticipate in-building public safety network requirements to drive 
installation of multi-provider systems.  Ignoring any specific or implied code 
requirements that the two systems be separate, supporting multiple service 
providers, technologies, and bands will drive up the installation cost and 
short the system life-cycle substantially over what would be required to 
support public safety alone. On a large scale, the price difference will likely 
continue to discourage DAS for cellular coverage.

 

Chuck Enfield

Manager, Wireless Systems & Engineering

Telecommunications & Networking Services

The Pennsylvania State University

110H, USB2, UP, PA 16802

ph: 814.863.8715

fx: 814.865.3988

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Pete Hoffswell
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:47 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU 
 
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

 

Hiya - 

 

What is the current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

 

Are you using DAS systems on your campus?  

 

For coverage or capacity or both?

 

Glad you did?

 

I'm interested to hear stories.  We have a few LEEDS buildings that are quite 
Faraday cage-like.  Wonder if we should explore DAS, wait for wifi-calling, or 
what




-
Pete Hoffswell - Network Manager
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http://www.davenport.edu

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

[Lee H Badman]

John,

Outside of my University duties, I’m fortunate to have a fairly busy 2nd career 
as a freelance writer/consultant. This gets me into a lot of NDA, early look 
situations. I’d encourage everyone pondering in-building cell concerns to get 
up to speed on CBRS https://www.fcc.gov/rulemaking/12-354 and to watch for 
coming announcements from WLAN vendors in this regard. It really could be a 
game changer, far beyond anything that’s ever been tried in the spirit of 
leveraging WLAN deployments to assist with bad cell coverage. By week’s end, 
there will be at least one major announcement on CBRS.

Just one more spice for the soup, but a potentially important one.


-Lee

Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu w 
its.syr.edu
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Cosgrove, John
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:08 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

We included an expandable DAS in our Children’s Hospital 2 years ago as it was 
a requirement and the goal was to use this head end to expand it into existing 
buildings as well as college an research areas.  Now the migration of this 
traffic to Wi-Fi makes us have to re-think expanding this service.  The issue 
as always is timing.  The hope is that all consumer cell devices will be able 
to support a Wi-Fi connection and are we willing or able to wait for that while 
our users demand services.  It used to be the carriers responsibility to get 
their service to their customers.  Not any more it seems.

Right now we are considering expansion of the DAS as a standard or installing 
some femtocell type technology to put out some “spot fires” until the 
transition to Wi-Fi if that happens.

I have always said to invest in the Wi-Fi because you will end up investing in 
it in the end.

You may as well get the advantage of a well-designed and provisioned Wi-Fi 
network sooner rather then later.

John Cosgrove
Wireless Network Staff Specialist

Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Health System
Penn State College of Medicine
140 Sipe Ave
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone:   717-531-6131
EMail:jcosgr...@hmc.psu.edu
Web: http://pennstatehershey.org


From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Pete Hoffswell
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 1:47 PM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

Hiya -

What is the current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

Are you using DAS systems on your campus?

For coverage or capacity or both?

Glad you did?

I'm interested to hear stories.  We have a few LEEDS buildings that are quite 
Faraday cage-like.  Wonder if we should explore DAS, wait for wifi-calling, or 
what

-
Pete Hoffswell - Network Manager
pete.hoffsw...@davenport.edu
http://www.davenport.edu
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

[Cosgrove, John]

We included an expandable DAS in our Children’s Hospital 2 years ago as it was 
a requirement and the goal was to use this head end to expand it into existing 
buildings as well as college an research areas.  Now the migration of this 
traffic to Wi-Fi makes us have to re-think expanding this service.  The issue 
as always is timing.  The hope is that all consumer cell devices will be able 
to support a Wi-Fi connection and are we willing or able to wait for that while 
our users demand services.  It used to be the carriers responsibility to get 
their service to their customers.  Not any more it seems.

Right now we are considering expansion of the DAS as a standard or installing 
some femtocell type technology to put out some “spot fires” until the 
transition to Wi-Fi if that happens.

I have always said to invest in the Wi-Fi because you will end up investing in 
it in the end.

You may as well get the advantage of a well-designed and provisioned Wi-Fi 
network sooner rather then later.

John Cosgrove
Wireless Network Staff Specialist

Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Health System
Penn State College of Medicine
140 Sipe Ave
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone:   717-531-6131
EMail:jcosgr...@hmc.psu.edu
Web: http://pennstatehershey.org


From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Pete Hoffswell
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 1:47 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

Hiya -

What is the current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

Are you using DAS systems on your campus?

For coverage or capacity or both?

Glad you did?

I'm interested to hear stories.  We have a few LEEDS buildings that are quite 
Faraday cage-like.  Wonder if we should explore DAS, wait for wifi-calling, or 
what

-
Pete Hoffswell - Network Manager
pete.hoffsw...@davenport.edu
http://www.davenport.edu
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

[Cosgrove, John]

I will be attending.  I have the joys of building Wi-Fi for Higher Education 
and Healthcare so I would not mind getting together during the week.  I will be 
attending a class over the weekend and the conference next week.

John Cosgrove
Wireless Network Staff Specialist

Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Health System
Penn State College of Medicine
140 Sipe Ave
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone:   717-531-6131
EMail:    jcosgr...@hmc.psu.edu
Web: http://pennstatehershey.org 
 

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Elton
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:27 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix

Anyone going to the WLPC in Phoenix this year?

http://wlanpros.com/WLPC2016

I'd be happy to line up a higher ed get-together if anyone else is going.

Norman Elton
College of William & Mary

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