Mike, For wireless, we use "release based printing". No one knows where you are better than you ;-) You can send a print job from anywhere you want. It goes to a print queue. (the print queue has also the advantage to do accounting/person) To release the print job at the right location, you have to authenticate to the printer on site (small workstation attached to the printer). There are also commercial solutions for this like: WEPA. https://www.wepanow.com/
This doesn't work for private printers of course, only for institution based printers. Philippe Philippe Hanset Univ. of TN, Knoxville www.eduroamus.org<http://www.eduroamus.org> On May 31, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Osborne, Bruce W wrote: Mike, I think Aruba’s AirGroup will be interesting too when it is finally released. It is currently in alpha status, I believe. According to their tech brief http://www.arubanetworks.com/pdf/technology/TB_AirGroupWLANServices.pdf it appears Aruba is initially planning on using AP association for determining location. Perhaps they can incorporate their AP grouping feature so this would work better in dense environments. At Liberty University, we are an all-Cisco shop but we have found Aruba’s wireless products to be more feature rich and less expensive that Cisco’s offerings. We have also found Aruba’s technical support to be exceptional, especially when compared to our Cisco support experiences with their fat APs. I know that if there is a feature we absolutely require, Aruba will work with us to develop it. They did that to enable us to offer our IPTV services on our wireless network. If you start with Aruba’s AirWave product, you can manage Cisco as well as Aruba APs from one management server. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Mike King [mailto:m...@mpking.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:21 PM Subject: Location Based Printing We're piloting a VDI deployment, and I just got blindsided by my server team. I'm looking for some ideas. The VDI deployment has been "sold" to management with location based printing. "It slices, It dices, It knows where you are and will select the appropriate printer for you" This works all well and good in the labs and desktop replacements because it's all subnet based. If "Endpoint X is in Subnet Y, map Printer Z" This falls over with a tremendous bang when your using wireless. We're currently using Cisco Wireless, with a couple controllers, with all the access points tunneling the traffic back to the controllers. Means, without fail, almost everyone everywhere has the same address. Especially if you roam to another building, or a different part of big building. The next big push with VDI is moving to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and the IPad users are lining up. So anyone using Cisco Wireless done any sort of location based printing on the wireless? We do own a location appliance. I know that new Aruba feature (AirGroup) is looking mighty tempting right now. Mike ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found athttp://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/.
