On Apr 30, 2013, at 10:34 , "Becker, Jason" <jbec...@wustl.edu> wrote: > > What are others doing to get interoperability when you have multiple wireless > vendors on campus? We are transitioning to a new system and trying to think > of all the issues we may run into during this. > > A little background about our layout… a building will have all the same > vendor AP's but adjacent building may not, over 100 buildings on campus, > total of 4000+ across campus, systems will have different ip pool space, and > limited outdoor coverage. >
Over our multi-year migration from one vendor to another, we went with option 1 and did our best to keep the 2 vendors' equipment as physically separated as possible. Worked out fine. I'm sure there were some interference/roaming issues, but nothing major, and it was decided that not introducing user confusion about which SSID to use was a bigger benefit. -- Julian Y. Koh Acting Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 Evanston, IL 60208 847-467-5780 NUIT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
