No easy answer. The dorms could be set up “consumer style” with a different operational profile, SSID, etc and don’t HAVE to be run like the rest of campus.
But in classrooms, labs and meeting rooms there is now way to deliver highest performance, regulatory compliance, and accommodation of crap devices all at the same time without hyper complexity, and then at the physics level you still have problems. Even if every issue can’t be fixed in one fell swoop, there are a number of easy tweaks that device makers could provide if they pulled their heads out of 2004. Lee Badman Wireless/Network Architect ITS, Syracuse University 315.443.3003 (Blog: http://wirednot.wordpress.com) From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sessler Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 12:39 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Trying to get the Wi-Fi Alliance's Attention I don't know Lee, in my mind is it the device maker's requirements to work in both consumer and enterprise environment, or does the enterprise wlan market need to figure out how to look more like a consumer wlan? Is this a problem EDU's have created because of some desire to provide a service that's more complex or invasive to use then it has to be? Is there really a need to on-board devices and have them associate using WPA2 Ent, or could we support the bulk of our users (especially students) using something more consumer friendly? Take residential (dorm) wifi as an example. If you had a model with an open or PSK-emulated wireless network coupled with location-based service filtering, the user gets on with every device out there, and they can see their chromecast, appletv, etc. and any others on that AP or 1 adjacent. Pretty much gives you the consumer feel. Jeff >>> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:47 AM, in message >>> <432756068f5346b59e108b825efca...@ex13-mbx-10.ad.syr.edu<mailto:432756068f5346b59e108b825efca...@ex13-mbx-10.ad.syr.edu>>, >>> Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote: I know self-promotion is in poor taste, but wanted to share this http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless-infrastructure/the-case-for-wlan-interoperability/a/d-id/1318718? and encourage anyone of like (or opposing) mind to add comments. I'm told that the Alliance is at least reading along, FWIW. -Lee Lee H. Badman Network Architect/Wireless TME ITS, Syracuse University 315.443.3003 ********** 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/.
