RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Draft 2.0

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Morrissey
I'm pretty sure Powerdsine/Microsemi has certified its midspan products to work with a number of vendors' gigabit switches. Pete M. _ From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:25 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Draft 2.0

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Morrissey
Lee, I think you are right on. I think as long as your a/b/g network is working well, the students aren't going to care about 11n. In my mind this is still a very immature technology. I think it would be very hard to demonstrate any noticeable benefit to a typical student using wireless. Sure, you

iPhone Mystery Solved

2007-07-21 Thread Peter Morrissey
In case you haven't heard: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/07/cisco_apple.html Pete Morrissey ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

802.1x and iPhone

2007-07-11 Thread Peter Morrissey
It looks like the iPhone doesn't support 1x. We plan to be all 1x by next semester. We are also apparently already getting calls about wireless support for the iPhone and anticipate that a lot of students will come in with them. Does anyone know if Apple has any plans to support 802.1x? Pete

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco vs. Meru article

2007-06-14 Thread Peter Morrissey
I'm with you Jamie. Standards are extremely important, but only to the extent that they serve the consumer. You still have to buy the whole system from one vendor, so what is the difference? As long as the clients will be interoperable, then I don't think it really matters. I could be missing somet

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone using idEngines Ignition AutoConnect?

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Morrissey
We looked at it in a demo and spoke with them. It did look exciting on paper at first. One problem is that it does not support Vista or Apple. They are working on a solution to this, but it won't be ready in our time frame. We want to figure all this out within the next month or so so we can be rea

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] First-time rollout of 802.1x, opening of Fall semester madness

2007-03-21 Thread Peter Morrissey
John, > These open APs run on a restricted network, preventing harm from our > internal network, and restricted from conducting common attacks > on the Internet. I'm curious how you "restrict them from conducting common attacks on the Internet." Do you turn off port 80, and thus prevent the myria