This is where I gotta plug our Bluesocket box for guest access. They worked with us to develop a simple "SMS you your password" mechanism, and I can't imagine a simpler guest portal for people to use. The AT&T model does seem interesting, but to Phillipe's point, I'm not digging the single carrier thing.
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hanset, Philippe C Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:01 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AT&T WiFi Overlaying AT&T Wi-Fi over the wireless network to me seems like the same problem as a vendor specific DAS. Only AT&T customers can really use the infrastructure unless you are willing to pay "a la carte" for the service. What's next? Verizon Wi-Fi, Sprint Wi-Fi... or a web page where you have to pick the vendor of your choice in a long list (highly sensitive to MITM). With models like eduroam, at least all R&E people can join the network while traveling around. What we really need is eduroam for other users as well! (I'm working on it ;-) Philippe Philippe Hanset Univ. of TN, Knoxville www.eduroamus.org<http://www.eduroamus.org> On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Dewitt Latimer wrote: As a person who travels to many campuses, I can tell you that having my iPhone auto-associate with a campus WiFi is a whole lot nicer than having to bug my hosts to sponsor me for a guest wireless account. So I think the real way to look at this is (1) how many guests do you have to your campus, (2) do you care about them, (3) is your wireless guest registration system self sponsored and simple, or a real PIA? You don't necessarily have to overlay the AT&T ssid over your whole campus either. You can hit (say) the performing arts, campus hotel and conference, etc. But that's more of a political outcome than technical. If you go through the hassle of a couple of buildings, you might as well do them all. Also, AT&T almost always brings their own commodity bandwidth to the bargaining table. So depending on how many guests you have anyway, you can off load some of their data to their pipe. -d On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote: Ryan- Do you feel there has been any real value to OSU, or any downside? Thanks- Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003<tel:315%20443-3003> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] On Behalf Of Holland, Ryan C. Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:34 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AT&T WiFi We have it here at OSU, and it works adequately. Nothing special. Just a L2 handoff from our equipment to theirs. ========== Ryan Holland Network Engineer, Wireless Office of the Chief Information Officer The Ohio State University 614-292-9906<tel:614-292-9906> holland....@osu.edu<mailto:holland....@osu.edu> Submit a Kudos to an OCIO employee!<http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/514095/giveociokudos> On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Steve Hess wrote: Anyone have experience with the AT&T WiFi product? Upper management is looking into it here. My understanding is they will use our existing Aruba infrastructure to propagate the signal. Curious for input from others on direct experience and technical considerations (in general and as relates to Aruba specifically). 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