We looked at deploying these in some of the cement-block style dorms to increase the port count per room and add wireless to the dorms but opted not to.
1) The devices are 10/100 and 802.11b/g only, long-term we are looking to move to gigabit or faster campus-wide and the migration to 802.11n 2) Being POE for our purposes requires purchasing all new switches in the dorms to support them 3) During testing we noticed these devices reboot if there is disruption on the management vlan between the device and controller... Firmware upgrading a building uplink switch would result in the devices causing an extended out as they would reboot and reload their configuration after the building uplink switch was already back up. 4) These are surface-mount devices....they will stick out of the wall around 1" which for in the dorms gives that much extra room for furniture (at least what is here) to easily hit the devices. 5) Scaling up after looking at implementing a couple hundred of these devices you need to factor in licensing on the controller and potentially multiple controllers. 6) The MSM back-end works well as a basic NAC but provides no posture assessment/enforcement. Patrick Goggins Network Administrator Carroll University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of William Emmel Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 8:59 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] HP MSM317 Just curious if anyone has any experience with the HP ProCurve MSM317 Access device that they could share. Apparently they are being deployed by Marriot hotels and could be a good fit for student residence halls. Thanks. Bill William F. Emmel Director of Network and Communications Services St. John's University, Queens, New York Office 1-718-990-2007 Mobile 1-516-647-7624 ********** 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/.
