Since we moved from old design (AP's down the hall) to new design (AP's in the rooms) I have seen patient rooms with medical tape and bandages covering up the LED in patient rooms. It seems when you are sick and laying in a hospital bed and have trouble sleeping the single LED shining in your eyes are an issue. I get it and understand it.
I am testing this in my office for now and plan to review with support staff but I will as a policy disable all LED's on AP's. In the end it may not really be that useful considering they are all managed on the backend for up/down status. If an AP is having issues connecting with the controller it flashes so when they see an LED they know there is a problem. Definitely a patient satisfaction improvement. John Cosgrove Penn State Health/ Penn State College of Medicine From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 9:57 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs First-world problems... Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence Halls. We're not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request? Thanks- Lee Badman Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) Information Technology Services 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu ********** 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/.
