Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Sessler
I know Cisco is looking at a floating license model so that all those "spare" licenses stop going to waste.   I also heard a rumor that there is some sort of HA mode coming (maybe in 8.0) - similar to how the ASA's work - so that you only need to license the actual number of AP's connected to

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Peter P Morrissey
not faced with either of the first two situations. Sharing in case anyone else can benefit... Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 Spam<https://www.spamtrap.o

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Robertson, Joshua A.
and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ____ Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=611088130&m=6f0ed873d08e&t=20120202&c=s> Not spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=611088130&m=6f0ed873d08e&t=20120202&a

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Sessler
Assuming you are running some form of n+1 redundancy with your controllers, then the loss of a single 500-1000 AP controller would be minimal.   Jeff  >>> On Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 1:10 PM, in message <007e01cce1ef$0d510a70$27f31f50$@edu>, Danny Eaton wrote: Does anyone

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Schmidt, Jason W
two situations. Sharing in case anyone else can benefit... Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=611088130&m=

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Mike King
ce and WiSMs retired at the > pace we had planned on, or quickly rushing to get rid the WiSMs so we’re > not faced with either of the first two situations. > > ** ** > > Sharing in case anyone else can benefit… > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Lee H. Badm

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Lee H Badman
of the first two situations. Sharing in case anyone else can benefit... Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=6110881

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Danny Eaton
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Book remcomendations

2012-02-02 Thread James Saarikko
James, May want to invest in the latest CWNA book . This will give you much of the background in RF and theory was well that vendors more than times miss. V/R James On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:52 PM, James Michael Keller wrote: > Content preview: All, I'm looking for a good book on current wire

RE: Book remcomendations

2012-02-02 Thread Kellogg, Brian D.
http://www.cwnp.com/cwnpstore/study_guides They are all good resources, but to get started the CWNA book is quite good. Fyi, Brian -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of James Michael Kel

Book remcomendations

2012-02-02 Thread James Michael Keller
Content preview: All, I'm looking for a good book on current wireless tech that covers more theory and RF then vendor specific implementations. I'm working on a deployment, and we have vendor training lined up, but wanted to dig into some more of the RF side before getting bogged down int

RE: End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Robertson, Joshua A.
with either of the first two situations. Sharing in case anyone else can benefit... Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/

End of Sale/End of Life Announcement on WiSMs

2012-02-02 Thread Lee H Badman
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps2706/ps6526/end_of_life_notice_c51-691055.html Somehow this escaped me, and now I'm dealing with not getting wind of it earlier. It's no surprise that WiSMs are getting long in the tooth, but the part of the announcement that (I think) sucks

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] School blocks Wi-Fi access to smartphones to address IP usage issues

2012-02-02 Thread Marcelo Lew
Smartphones were killing us this quarter. While we only have 3500-3800 concurrent daily users, we have about 6500 devices connected. Most of these extra 3000 devices were smartphones that come online for less than a minute, and then go idle again. With our 30m DHCP renew times, we were exhaus

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] School blocks Wi-Fi access to smartphones to address IP usage issues

2012-02-02 Thread Jonn Martell
I agree, the school newspaper only shows it from a user's perspective. "The smartphones are shutting down the network" while it's more "the network has run out of public address space and the use of private address space on this network is ___ " We all know the major flaw in using private add

School blocks Wi-Fi access to smartphones to address IP usage issues

2012-02-02 Thread Frank Bulk
http://www.vsuspectator.com/2012/02/02/outage-linked-to-usage/ Looks like VSU had to make some hard choices and is blocking Wi-Fi access by smartphones. Not sure why they couldn't add another RFC 1918 block, but I'm sure there's more going on than the school paper shared. Frank ** Parti

RE: Inter-Campus Wifi & GPS Tracking

2012-02-02 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
One of the network engineers I work with came up with this link for promising GPS products. https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=157&ra=true It does not show any products for Canada - English, though. Canada French is not even an option to select. :( Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Networ