Thanks, Jeff. My thoughts are pretty close to yours on all of this, but it's good to hear from others. Should be interesting days to come.
Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNE#200) Information Technology Services (NDD Group) 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 e lhbad...@syr.edu w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Sessler Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:10 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco pre-DNA Spaces Location Service, Contact Tracing Lee, Even without location services, one can get association data for a device and use that for rudimentary contact tracing. I used it over the summer for a possible COVID case, and it was helpful in determining where the person was not. That is, it's not accurate enough to exclude people from the local area, but if the devices weren’t seen in other buildings, that was helpful. I don't know that it would scale come students returning, and we're going to need something like Spaces to help. Spaces looked very expensive however. We make use of an emergency notification product called Everbridge, and they are pitching a contact tracing support add-on to their mobile app where they bridge data from WiFi associations, door swipe, meal cards, and so on, all in an effort to provide more accurate information on a device/person. Of course, that raises privacy concerns, so I'm still hopeful we'll see something compelling come from the Apple/Google partnership where we aren't holding onto data that must be protected and managed. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 10:30 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco pre-DNA Spaces Location Service, Contact Tracing I hope everyone on the list is doing well. We are getting multiple vendor pitches these days for contact tracing “solutions”. From Cisco, our main network vendor, their pitch relies on DNA Spaces. We don’t use that yet, and it’s no secret what is happening to many of our budgets. My question is specifically for Cisco legacy location services users. Are you all doing anything specific in anticipation of possibly needing to provide Wi-Fi location data for contact tracing? Are you being specifically asked about it by your management? I haven’t decided yet weather the vendors are being generally altruistic or opportunistic on this topic yet. Regards, Lee Badman (mobile) ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
