Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Patel,Chintan
Thank you all for the comments and the feedback. Very much appreciated. The debate of 1 port per pillow is always going to be had. At least in our residence halls - we also have 1 port per pillow policy. I know all the pros/cons but in the end just comes down to student/resident needs - like ga

Re: Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Angelo Santabarbara
We still provide 1 port per pillow in our residence halls. Our pod style dorm units are what led us to the hospitality access point model. Between the very thick concrete walls to all the utilities run on the "open side of the pod" ceiling mounted hallway solutions performed poorly. Wireless j

Re: [EXTERNAL] [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Jeffrey D. Sessler
All of our new residential halls are wireless only, and as we remodel our historic residential halls, we’re pulling the network copper from the room plates into the celling to support the addition of a celling mounted AP. Our density is every other room by default/minimum, so it’s very dense co

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXTERNAL] [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Coehoorn, Joel
I did not recommend continuing port-per-pillow deployments the last time I reviewed a residence. However, in addition to wireless coverage, I did push to provide wired ports for common/TV spaces in the residences. This provides flexibility for future changes, as well as a way to help offload some o

Re: [EXTERNAL] [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Mallon, Jason
Chintan, All of our older dorms are wired currently wired, and are both pod-style and apartment. These all have wires in them. The newer dorms all of which have been pod-style are wireless only. New construction we are using ceiling mount APs like the 1815i or 2802. In the older dorms that w

Recent GNU-TLS patch, no more support for SHA-1, aargh!

2020-02-25 Thread Philippe Hanset
All, We has been struggling with a recent patch from Ubuntu that broke encrypted connections between some of our internal servers. Long story short: Ubuntu now uses GNU-TLS and the latest security patch has removed support for SHA-1. Error messages in Ubuntu or in LDAP were not explicit enough

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Swenson, Chris
We are still providing 1 port per pillow in the residence halls. In addition in new construction and renovations over the last 4 or 5 years we have been using CAT 6A wiring and Aruba AP-305's and occasionally AP-304's. As expected an AP every 2 or 3 rooms depending on the construction. The buildin

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Ricardo Stella
We do have pods and apartment style residence halls, though the majority are traditional residence halls with two beds per room. We had switched from hallway ceiling mounted access points to hospitality units in every other room (zig-zag and alternating on each floor). Part of the decision going t

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Tony Skalski
Hi Chintin, For our pod-style res halls, we have two network drops per room. We use Aruba hospitality APs and we place them every other room and in the common room. So if you are in a room with an AP, you still have 2 network drops (pretty much only used by gaming rigs at this point). ajs On Tue

Pod-style Residence Halls

2020-02-25 Thread Chintan Patel
Morning, We are in process of building new residence halls (3 buildings) with Pod-style rooms. Pod-style concept is new to us and I wanted some feedback from anyone who currently has these living spaces. I will be leading the Network and Wireless planning for the residence halls. Below are co