We broadcast the usual 3 SSIDs (branded, guest, eduroam) in the few locations we have outdoor WiFi for general use. We’ve also started setting up outdoor APs for athletic venues for ticket scanners. In one area, we added the ticket scanning SSID to the others. In other, predictably more crowded areas, like ticket booths adjacent to outdoor bleachers, we’ve been dedicating one AP to ticket scanning.
Eric Glinsky Network Administrator University of Connecticut ITS – Network Operations Temporary Administration Building 25 Gampel Service Drive | Storrs, CT 06269-1138 (860) 486-9199 e...@uconn.edu ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Mike Atkins <matk...@nd.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:53:25 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Outdoor WLANs? *Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* For those of you running outdoor Wi-Fi covering public space, do you broadcast the same WLANs as in building? Do you have a specific strategy for why or why not? TLDR: Being a Northern Indiana campus, the demand for outdoor Wi-Fi during the school year has been fairly low. Last year has changed this for all of us. We face the same challenges as everyone else with cost/aesthetics vs return on investment. We are looking to provide some legit coverage this year and get out of the "temporary" outdoor setups. We are a two SSID campus with eduroam being our dot1X secure network and ND-guest being open unauthenticated Internet access only "guest" network. The question came up out of a discussion related to ensuring performance for faculty/staff/students in the public outdoor spaces but my other concern is for our Information Security group. An open guest network might be okay in a building where we can track your device down fairly quickly but outdoors might complicate this. I think the campus user expectation is both SSID's everywhere. Trying to get some thoughts from around the block. -- Mike Atkins Infrastructure Architect Office of Information Technology University of Notre Dame Phone: 574-631-7210 ********** 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<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=04%7C01%7Ceg%40UCONN.EDU%7C76f85c02a1e54ff771dc08d8d46016ac%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637492856456208712%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=yTQexnOsr2wzTKnHvl3OzOxsO8logtsGISOD5my%2F4Ew%3D&reserved=0> ********** 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
