1) What solution did you select? Impulse's SafeConnect
2) How easily did it integrate with you existing infrastructure? Very easy. Ran a few commands on our core (set up SFlow & PBR), and plugged it in. Configuring the policies to check for on students machines took longer than the infrastructure setup. Integrating with wireless was a non-issue as no extra steps were necessary to activate it on the wireless vlan. 3) What is you existing infrastructure and wireless solution? Wired:Alcatel 9800/6850/6800 Wireless:Alcatel OAW-6000 4) How well has it performed? No major issues so far. Configuration tweaks every so often but nothing big 5) If you had to do it again would you select the same product? Yes 6) What were the success and failures of the deployment? The worst part was the first year we deployed it and all the students that had viruses/spyware that caused issues installing the items we require (patches, AV, AS, etc...). It wasn't too bad, but it did take longer the first year than subsequent years. 7) What was the impact on your technical staff to prepare for deployment? Outside of training helpdesk users on how to handle issues, the impact was minimal. The majority of the time was spent by me configuring the policies and wording exactly how we wanted them 8) How well does it scale? The NAC uses SFlow data from the routers to recognize users, and adds Policy Based Routing to the routers to "quarantine" users, therefore the traffic passes across our enterprise lan, and not through a NAC Appliance. Because of this, it scales as much as our routers do. 9) How are the management tools and maintenance for the solution? Management tools are great, and allow very specific customization of exactly what is checked for and what message the end user sees. Thank a million, John V. Duran University of New Mexico Network Engineer ITS/Network Communications/Data Services Ph: (505) 249-7890 Fax: (505) 277-8101 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
