Our first attempt at wireless-only was pushed by the cabling team for an old shoe factory building we use for document storage. That was unsuccessful due to the bulding construction & the user envorpnment. We are primarily wireless there with phones connected wired.
We are in an environment which is constantly changing with additional IT purchases needed. IT Management, with coordination from our Network Operations team, initially decided to move the dorms to all-wireless with ports by request only. We then later moved to charging for a wired port. We not do not offer wired ports except for our RAs & RDs for our wired Cisco phones. Since moving all-wireless, we also have Wi-Fi door locks in our newer residence buildings. We have a couple of computer labs where additional APs were purchased with a dedicated SSID only for the Lab computers because that was less expensive than providing the switch hardware to wire all the computers. I would say our wireless-only implementation was eventually successful. Bruce Osborne Senior Network Engineer Network Operations - Wireless (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Edward Fishman [mailto:efish...@stevens.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Wireless Only in Student Housing? Hello. I have been following this thread with great interest as we have a new student housing project in the works. My questions are: 1. Who was involved in the decision to go all wireless (or not) on your campus? 2. Were cost savings involved in the overall decision, if there were cost savings, considering the potential need for a greater density of APs? 3. From where was the greatest push-back not to go all-wireless? Conversely, who were the biggest fans of moving in the all-wireless direction? Thanks Edward M. Fishman Director of Networking and Systems Administration Division of Information Technology Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point on Hudson Samuel C. Williams Library - Lower Level Hoboken, NJ 07030 T 201-216-5147 | C 917-817-4088 http://www.stevens.edu<http://www.stevens.edu/> edward.fish...@stevens.edu<mailto:edward.fish...@stevens.edu> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
