RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] My personal training recommendation for Devin Akin's wireless training classes

[Christopher Brizzell]

How much does he charge per session?

Thanks,


Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu
518-580-5994



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
 On Behalf Of William Cummings
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:24 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] My personal training recommendation for Devin 
Akin's wireless training classes

I second this as well.  One of the best training sessions I have ever attended.

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 9:08 PM Stephen Belcher 
mailto:steve.belc...@mail.wvu.edu>> wrote:
Thanks Ryan. The suggestion is much appreciated!

Sent from Nine

From: "Turner, Ryan H" mailto:rhtur...@email.unc.edu>>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 4:49 PM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] My personal training recommendation for Devin Akin's 
wireless training classes

All,

For those of you who’ve been looking for extremely deep and informative classes 
on wireless tech, I want to personally pass along my recommendation to consider 
Devin Akin with divdyn.com.  I’ve now brought him in for 3 
weeks of training (over 2 years) to teach courses on CWNA/CWSP/CWAP/CWDP.  
Devin recently helped out the educause wireless CG on the Wifi6/5G session we 
had.  This is the guy that cofounded the CWNP program.

Ryan Turner
Head of Networking
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
+1 919 445 0113 Office
+1 919 274 7926 Mobile
r...@unc.edu


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RE: Aruba - Going from PEAP to TLS

[Christopher Brizzell]

Perfect – thanks Ryan.

We will be creating an onboarding SSID, I may pick your brain about that if I 
run into any challenges.


Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu<mailto:cbriz...@skidmore.edu>
518-580-5994



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
 On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:58 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba - Going from PEAP to TLS

I can’t speak to the Clearpass, but you should spend more time validating the 
onboarding process so that it is smooth.  That is going to be your issue.  The 
setup won’t take long, but a poorly designed user experience will hurt you.  I 
am going to assume you will use SecureW2s cloud PKI.  We are going to be 
switching that that from an AD private PKI.  Don’t be silly with certificate 
lengths or hashes.  2048 length with SHA256 works fine.  No need to do anything 
more and risk client support issues (in my opinion).

You should stand up a test onboarding SSID (if you are going to have one) and 
get people to go through the process before production and get feedback.  
Utilize the documentation other schools have built (wifi.unc.edu).  If you 
haven’t used an onboarding SSID to date, then you have a lot of work just to 
make that work well.  Realize that Android devices are going to be 75% of your 
issues.  The other operating systems are pretty easy and straightforward (OSX 
is the second runner for issues).  iOS and windows are a breeze.

Good luck and welcome to the TLS club 


Ryan Turner
Head of Networking
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
+1 919 445 0113 Office
+1 919 274 7926 Mobile
r...@unc.edu<mailto:r...@unc.edu>



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> 
On Behalf Of Christopher Brizzell
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:57 AM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba - Going from PEAP to TLS

In what should have been done long ago, we would like to move off of our 
EAP-PEAP and onto EAP-TLS.

Most likely we will be going with SecureW2 to help with that process.

I’d like to hear from anyone who may have done this with Aruba OS and 
Clearpass, so as to avoid any pitfalls and look for advice on the best way to 
proceed.

Thank You.

Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu<mailto:cbriz...@skidmore.edu>
518-580-5994


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Aruba - Going from PEAP to TLS

[Christopher Brizzell]

In what should have been done long ago, we would like to move off of our 
EAP-PEAP and onto EAP-TLS.

Most likely we will be going with SecureW2 to help with that process.

I'd like to hear from anyone who may have done this with Aruba OS and 
Clearpass, so as to avoid any pitfalls and look for advice on the best way to 
proceed.

Thank You.

Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu
518-580-5994


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RE: Performance improvements from hallway to in-room

[Christopher Brizzell]

Just be ready for some amount of backlash from an angry/ignorant parent. Every 
year (including yesterday) we have parents contact us saying we needed to 
remove all APs from bedrooms because of the health risk to the students living 
in those spaces.

Thank you for the information, however. Any amount of proof to help solidify 
our decision helps.


Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu
518-580-5994



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
 On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:43 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Performance improvements from hallway to in-room

All:

We all know that moving from hallway deployments to in-room deployments pays 
dividends.  This summer we started doing some re-cabling work on smaller dorms 
to move from hallway to in-room.   We also went away from Aruba higher 
performance APs to the hospitality APs for these locations.  Even though the AP 
cost is significantly less, the cabling costs made this move a premium option.  
Nonetheless, thanks to data provided to us from Nyansa Voyance, we are able to 
clearly demonstrate to Housing that these funds were well spent.  After the 
changes, these dorms went from some of the worst performing locations on campus 
to some of the best.  When you look at the graphs below, the Y axis is 
percentage of users that are affected by poor wifi performance (I believe 
Nyansa measures this as clients that experience a 25% retransmit rate from the 
AP to client).  With Nyansa, it determines behavior on usage level.  So when 
you see the dashed line, it means that usage was below or above the threshold 
during that time frame.  I picked the usage level that would show the most 
complete picture, but going from low/medium/high all show the same improvement 
levels.

Carmichael:

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Lewis:
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Everett:
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Ryan Turner
Head of Networking
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
+1 919 445 0113 Office
+1 919 274 7926 Mobile
r...@unc.edu


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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wi-Gi 6 APs

[Christopher Brizzell]

Thanks for the responses.

Is anyone running multi-gig out to their APs or just a 1Gbps link?


Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu
518-580-5994



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
 On Behalf Of Hurt,Trenton W.
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 3:52 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wi-Gi 6 APs

We have over 100   515s and 535s deployed.  I have disabled the HE (ax) radio 
for now due to  legacy client issues. (intel)   I’ve seen this with other ax ap 
vendors so not just aruba thing.  Yes updating drivers has fixed but it’s 
really hard to instruct end user to go download drivers when the device doesn’t 
see any ssid even open guest one.   We weren’t seeing many ax clients so 
disabling this phy isn’t really huge issue for us today.

We have been very pleased with the performance of the system from client 
perspective.  But going from 802.11n 2ss aps to 802.11ac 4ss with 5ghz in room 
design probably has more to do than model of the ap.  Now the 8.x gui in aruba 
is another story.   Learning the ways of the mm cli will get you much farther 
than the buggy gui that is in the 8.5 train.  I’m on the latest 8.5.3 code as 
well.


Thanks
Trent



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> 
On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 3:32 PM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wi-Gi 6 APs

On Sep 5, 2019, at 14:08, Turner, Ryan H 
mailto:rhtur...@email.unc.edu>> wrote:

We've done a test deployment of Aruba 515s.  There seem to be some driver 
compatibility issues.  We have 2 IT buildings.  I had an induvial able to 
connect and see SSIDs just fine in our building with 315s.  When she came to 
the building with 515s, she saw nothing.  I updated her drivers, and then 
everything worked.  So just be aware you might see more of that.  We were 
running 8.503 code (I think).

Having users update their device drivers is on our standard troubleshooting 
script for when people call in trouble reports.  It’s been solving problems for 
years.  :)

--
Julian Y. Koh
Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2020 Ridge Avenue #331
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls

[Christopher Brizzell]

We did this summer. We contracted out to a company to improve the wireless in 
our Res Halls, and the solution they came up with was to install them in the 
rooms. We have about 2000 students living on campus and 800 access points, 
mostly in bedrooms, for those 2000 students.

Of those, we have had only 1 incident of someone unplugging an access point. 
That one incident was quickly squashed by our Director of Res Life.

Overall, there has been a huge improvement in the wireless coverage and far 
fewer complaints. We do still have some students bringing in their own access 
points (even though they are forbidden), but it seems much less than in years 
past. The hope is that over the course of the next few years the number of 
rogues in the dorm will lessen down to almost none.

Chris Brizzell
Network Administrator
Skidmore College
cbriz...@skidmore.edu
518-580-5994


-Original Message-
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of David Robertson
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:37 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls

We are looking at how we install wireless in our Residence Halls for coverage.  
Currently we only place access points in the hallways, but are looking at 
moving them into the rooms for better coverage. We were wondering if anyone 
else has put the access points in the rooms and if they have seen a reduction 
in wireless complaint or if there have been issues with students playing with 
or disconnecting the access points.

David R.

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David Robertson
Service Delivery Manager
Network Engineering Technology
George Mason University
Voice: 703-993-2443
Fax: 703-993-3505

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