Oli, The University of Michigan has been in a similar position until recently. We are moving toward a funding model whereby units will provide central IT with funding sufficient to cover their portion of the wired and wireless infrastructure on campus. The initial refresh of WiFi is being provided by one-time funding. We already do this for the core network on campus, as well as for our Internet connections, so we are pretty confident that this will move forward since everyone wants to have a reliable and up to date network.
-- Daniel Eklund Network Planning Manager ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers University of Michigan 734.763.6389 On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Oliver Elliott <oliver.elli...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > I've been looking into EOLs and end of software support for some of our > older APs and was wondering what other institutions do to keep their estate > up to date. Up to now we've had very sparse funding for wireless as it was > always viewed as an add on service. A recent outage (caused by buggy 7.6.120 > code) has shown just how important Wifi has become. Up to now APs have been > largely installed on an ad-hoc basis with funding from departments or > projects but this doesn't tend to account for EOL replacement. > > We're looking to apply for a formal replacement project based on either > rolling yearly replacement budget or a big bang approach every few years. > > So, how do you guys handle this problem? > > Oli > -- > Oliver Elliott > Network Specialist > IT Services > University of Bristol > e: oliver.elli...@bristol.ac.uk > t: 0117 92 (87861) > ********** 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/.
