Hector,
I’d recommend starting with your Institutional Research group and ask them who
they consider cohorts for Louisiana State. From there, I’d query those
universities directly as they’ll likely provide useful/actionable data vs a
general request here. That is, my numbers won’t do you a lot of good because
we’re too small in comparison. You’ll likely want to find someone near your 27K
FTE and with a comparable residential population. Items like faculty/student
ratio will also play into it since that impacts the number of classrooms.
Best,
Jeff
On 9/26/17, 2:03 PM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
on behalf of Hector J Rios" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU on behalf of
hr...@lsu.edu> wrote:
Need your help. What is the number of network engineers you have dedicated
to wireless? Please indicate the size of your network, the scope of your
wireless team's responsibilities, whether you rely on other resources (like
contractors or other internal groups) to complement your efforts, and the most
important question, is this enough people or do you need more (if so, what
would the ideal number be)?
Not sure if this has been done before, if so, please let me know.
Here at LSU, we have 3600 APs, and two wireless engineers. The scope of
their work includes plan reviews (designing WLANs for new construction),
requests for additional coverage, site surveys, Tier 3 level of support,
Controller/AP config/monitoring/maintenance, lifecycle replacements,
testing/evals/research of new technologies. We rely on cable contractors to run
cable and mount APs , NOC personnel to install some switches, APs, and
troubleshooting, and student workers to configure APs and minor deployments.
Two wireless engineers is not enough for us. We need at least one more.
If you think there is value in this information and would prefer a better
format let me know.
Regards,
Hector Rios
Louisiana State University
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