Since cabling tends to have a 15-20 year life cycle, and can be expensive and disruptive to install, why not just run a cable to each room while you have the opportunity? Then you can use your survey tools to decide where to place the AP's. This gives you the option of reconfiguring down the road if that doesn't work out. It also gives you the option of adding more density if necessary. There will be multiple generations of wireless technology during the lifetime of the cable and the agility added by the additional cable could come in handy.
Pete Morrissey -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Doug Burke Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 7:29 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11ac AP Deployment All, Last year we cabled our campus classrooms and administrative offices with CAT6a preparing for the deployment of Wav 2 802.11ac. We are about to begin Phase II of the cabling project in our residence halls and we are looking for input from others on whether to plan for one AP per room or trust our survey tools. I expect most of you will say "it depends" and we understand the complexities of building construction. We have deployed 70 Wav 1 APs as a Proof of Concept (POC) testing them in different types of building construction but would like to hear other's experiences in particular to residence halls. Thank you for your help. Douglas Burke Senior Director '13 MSEL, BSBA Network Infrastructure Systems & Services University of San Diego ********** 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/.
