I would like to be able to take this approach, but the current distribution of several age of AP in each building is going to make it tricky. The way I see see it, given our starting point, the best plan is as follows:
1. Replace the existing 1131s (Annoying due to the different mounting). 2. Move towards homogeneous, properly surveyed installs per building. 3. Start a regular replacement programme based on AP model, and hopefully given step 2, by building. This allows us to partition off whole buildings if we ever get to a point where we cannot support both the oldest and newest APs at once. Thankfully any new building that has come online in the past few years has been done this way, we just need to sort out the hundreds of other buildings to match! Oli On 7 August 2014 22:19, Jeffrey Sessler <j...@scrippscollege.edu> wrote: > We have an established life-cycle for all of our technology, and for > wireless, it's every five years. This year we are bulk-replacing all of our > 1252 and 1142 "n" APs for the 3700 series ac models. > > I tend to favor bulk-replacement since it's much easier to support a > single model of AP vs seven different models. > > Jeff > > > >>> On Thursday, August 07, 2014 at 1:00 AM, in message < > cadbpxnzqnr5srr5rpzgpvsj1ni5w+vtsxxfsoxv2543192h...@mail.gmail.com>, > 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/. > > -- 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/.
