Hey Bruce, AP315's, not AP135's.
The building construction is steel-frame, concrete (4") on metal deck, brick façade with drywall interior. Low-E glass, so I hopefully won't see signals from the houses that are 40' from the structure. So here is the concern that I didn't really voice - I know that Aruba does a good job auto-provisioning, but what is "too much' in an open-air office farm? This is really supplemental wireless, since each desk will have a hard-wired computer, laptop or thin client. Under my previous wireless vendor, in a space that is 24 x 88, I'd probably put two 4-radio and one 2-radio unit in the space, configured with 7 of those 10 radios on 5GHz. I'm sure we all do this, but I was at another University a few weeks ago for a basketball game. Of course, I looked at their wireless installation and it was about what I would have done in an arena .. a high-end AP about every 30'. Obviously I'm not talking about the seating densities in an office space like what would be in a basketball arena, but it's what started me thinking about these open spaces. Is 25-30' a proper predictive distance .. using lower end AP's in the office space. Just to go off on a tangent, is anyone using hospitality units (e.g the Aruba AP303H) in meeting rooms? The conference rooms range in size from 2 - 16 seats. The larger meeting rooms (12 and 16 seats) I'd probably lean toward an AP315, but the 2-6 seat spaces I'd consider the 303's. The 303's are about half the cost, but I also may need more (one in each room instead of every-other). -Brian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 7:52 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Basic design question Brian, I know the best advice is to survey, but I know for new construction projects that is not possible. We used to use the VisualRF component of Airwave. We now use Ekahau to simulate and plan out deployments. It is always good to survey and adjust afterwards to verify your planning. I assume you already have the AP135s ? They were end of sale in August 2015. End of support is August 2020. We have seen much better coverage results with the newer AP225s Bruce Osborne Senior Network Engineer Network Operations - Wireless (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Brian Helman [mailto:bhel...@salemstate.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 4:41 PM Subject: Basic design question My installation will be Aruba AP315's, but anyone feel free to chime in .. In an open air area (e.g a large cube farm), what is your general rule of thumb for how apart you place your AP's? One of the spaces I'm looking at is 88' x 24' and will be filled with 8x8' (48" high) cubes. I already have an initial placement, I just want to keep the engineer honest. We're still new to Aruba. My previous vendor used a different radio structure, so it's not an apples to apples comparison on the layout for me. Thanks. -Brian ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
