To answer Lee's question, yes, there has been value. The transient users that use the attwifi service are the responsibility of AT&T and not the university. This is a value-add for us.
========== Ryan Holland Network Engineer, Wireless Office of the Chief Information Officer The Ohio State University 614-292-9906 holland....@osu.edu Submit a Kudos to an OCIO employee! On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Lee H Badman wrote: > 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 > > > > 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> 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 > > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [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 > 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 holland....@osu.edu > > Submit a Kudos to an OCIO employee! > > 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). > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > -- > ----------------------------- > Steve Hess > Network Administrator > Wheaton College > Phone: 508-286-3404 > Fax: 508-286-8270 > ----------------------------- > > Spam > Not spam > Forget previous vote > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3776 - Release Date: 07/20/11 > > ********** 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/. > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3778 - Release Date: 07/21/11 > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > Spam > Not spam > Forget previous vote > ********** 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/.
