Hi Ryan,
When we deployed at the first EDU, we installed two cable drops per
location to facilitate an inlay of another technology (at that time b
was deployable and we know that a 5GHz was just a matter of time). We
also added additional drops to plan for 5GHz (about 40% more which
didn't have
As far as the user experience is concerned, a single overhaul may be
better. That way users aren't faced with different SSIDs / logon
procedures depending on building / floor / area. Of course, if you use
a common captive web portal or such this may not be as big of an
issue.
However, controller
Our latest strategy was phased ovehaul (but it might change!),
one building at a time with some tricky VLAN trunking when
buidling are close to each other.
First phase:just replace existing b/g APs with new n APs using
existing Cat5
(upgrade power injectors and
Our latest strategy was phased ovehaul (but it might change!),
one building at a time with some tricky VLAN trunking when
buidling are close to each other.
That was buildings
To give you a timiline idea:
We plan on overhauling the entire main campus (120 buildings, 1500 APs)
in less than 6
Man I wish I had your budget, were about to pull the trigger on an aruba
deploy of 80 radios...
On 11/20/08 9:07 AM, Philippe Hanset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our latest strategy was phased ovehaul (but it might change!),
one building at a time with some tricky VLAN trunking when
buidling are
We're in the midst of a phased upgrade from Proxim to Meru. We began about
a year ago and have deployed 700 Meru AP311s across campus. We expect to
install about another 400 or so over the next 6 months to complete the
project. The focus of the initial installation was to service classrooms,
We were faced with a combination project at Macalester. We were bringing
our new athletic complex online (35 APs) and decided at that time to bring
in a centrally managed system and convert the rest of campus at the same
time. Our base wireless infrastructure was already Cisco thick APs, and the
We basically have the same setup and couldn't be more happy with the Cisco
solution and the LWAPP. It makes wireless easy. With the Cisco AP conv. tool
I upgraded all of my APs at one time. Took no time at all.
Justin Dover
Harpeth Hall School
615-346-0082
The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues
Indiana moved from 1500 fat AP's to 3000 controller-based AP's over this past
summer. Overall, the conversion went very smoothly for the users, if a bit of
a strain on the engineering staff. In the process we added a new SSID with
802.1x and another for guests. We left the legacy
