Staff and Faculty have wired because they are tethered to a VOIP phone, though
wireless is available in all floor/buildings.
classrooms have wired at the podium, wireless in the room too.
These folks still need access to a 4-didit extension, students typically use
their cell only.
That has been one of our concerns as well. People increasingly (due to some
internal budget / property accounting rule changes) are getting laptops and
devices they can take off-campus, and our desktop management group has been
starting to look at solutions which “phone home” for patches and upg
Our model use to be "port per pillow". Now it's, "AP per room". We found that
the newer models of AP, have wired ports and POE pass-through. It requires two
Ethernet runs to take full advantage. Plus you still have to have POE at the
switch (IDF) level. However, the cost of running 4 wires co
Our main problem with wireless-only was not having a good wake on LAN so we
could push patches and upgrades.
Thanks
John
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