RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Use of Airtame on school environment

2017-05-18 Thread Ian Lyons
I rolled this out at my old school. Over 150. It worked well. The advancements that Apple made have made a difference. Aruba/Clearpass etc, MDNS -rock solid. The only caveat is that, like most Apple Products, are intended for consumers. There isnt a great product (I know one exists) that

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Use of Airtame on school environment

2017-05-18 Thread Jeremy Mooney
I attended a peer presentation a few weeks ago where a school had switched to that and found it significantly better than everything else they had tested. They had the devices wired where possible, and placed in specific subnets reachable from the clients but also with a predictable IP pattern

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Use of Airtame on school environment

2017-05-18 Thread Curtis K. Larsen
We have a few Airtame devices (not a full scale deployment) and in general they work well. Unicast discovery using DNS names in a hierarchical network is a beautiful thing in my opinion not to mention they do not have the scan off channel to 149 for the airdrop protocol problem. I think they

Use of Airtame on school environment

2017-05-18 Thread Luiz Zicarelli
Dear all, we are exploring replacing our 130+ apple tvs with Airtame (www.airtame.com). Has anyone tested this so far? Seems to be very straight forward bu we are concerned about its performance within a segmented network environment. We are an Aruba shop, with Airgroup. Appreciate any comments.

RE: Canadian colleges and universities Wi-Fi

2017-05-18 Thread Edward Ip
Oh forgot to give the AP counts Perth Campus - 44 APs (recently upgraded all to Aruba AP325) Pembroke Campus - 95 APs (all Aruba AP225) Woodroffe Campus - 1320 APs (about 80% are Aruba AP 225, with the rest consisting of Aruba AP 135, AP125 and AP105. The plan is to upgrade all the non 802.11ac

RE: Canadian colleges and universities Wi-Fi

2017-05-18 Thread Edward Ip
Yes. Our main campus is the one in Nepean and a small training facility downtown. We also have a campus in Pembroke and in Perth. Here is some wireless stats I recently compiled. Perth Campus Avg Users: 16 clients Max Users: 104 clients Unique # of Users: 587 clients Max Internet bandwidth

RE: Canadian colleges and universities Wi-Fi

2017-05-18 Thread Manon Lessard
You guys still have the Nepean and Downtown campus? Manon Lessard Technicienne en développement de systèmes CCNP, CWNA, CWDP Direction des technologies de l'information Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault 1055, avenue du Séminaire Bureau 0403 Université Laval, Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6, Canada 418

RE: Canadian colleges and universities Wi-Fi

2017-05-18 Thread Edward Ip
At Algonquin College on our main campus, we have about 1300 Aruba APs (Mostly AP-225 Wave 1 AC) and our top concurrent user count is a bit over 15K in 19 buildings this year. Wireless traffic takes up to 75% (or more on some days) of our internet bandwidth during the year. Our college moved to

RE: Canadian colleges and universities Wi-Fi

2017-05-18 Thread Reimer, Paul
45k staff and faculty? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Manon Lessard Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 3:23 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Canadian colleges and universities

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Consumer devices - SSID or AP blocking/excluding

2017-05-18 Thread Dexter Caldwell
Makes sense, Recall this partnership from a while back: https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/08/31Apple-and-Cisco-Partner-to-Deliver-Fast-Lane-for-iOS-Enterprise-Users.html http://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/strategic-partners/apple.html D/C From: Thomas Carter Sent: Monday, May 15,