I'm new to the list, so forgive me if this has already come up... There was a whitepaper from Florida State (I believe) that showed comparisons for the number of APs needed to cover an area vs. the number of Vivatos needed. IMHO, it had some good conclusions. I have a copy of the whitepaper if anyone is interested. Just drop me a note.
My Vivato panel to test just arrived last week. It is the outdoor version, which is heavy, and should be interesting to mount. I plan to come up with some coverage maps during our testing. If anyone else is interested I would be happy to share our results. I also wanted to chime in on the conversation about 802.1x/VPN/Bluesocket(ish). Until this year, we have been using a homegrown web based authentication for our wireless users. It worked well, and has been stable for the last three years we have used it. In May, we migrated our library to 802.1x for wireless connections. We chose to use the Meetinghouse client, as it supported the most platforms, and had a reasonable cost. We have had two major problems with the deployment. First, there was the issue of how to get the client out to the students. We made it available from a web site, but if you don't have the client, you can't get on to get the client. We are solving this problem two ways. 1. Soon, when you buy a wireless card from the bookstore, we will include a CD with the client on it. 2. We have CDs available in the library that students can use. The second problem was configuration. The instructions to configure the client were longer than most students were willing to follow. The solution to this problem was to create an installer for both Windows and Mac that installed the certificate, and set up the client. Meetinghouse has a piece of software that will do this for you with the Windows clients. For the Mac, we had to create the installer ourselves. You can find the instructions at http://www.laptop.lib.utah.edu/global/support/AEGIS_Repackaging_MacOSX.rtf The end result has been very front-loaded support. However, once the client has been installed, the students seem to be quite happy. We have also found that most wireless cards will work 802.1x. In general, the cheap cards seem to have some issues. (i.e. Belkin, CompUSA, etc.) But in general, a driver upgrade has solved problems for other cards. Anyway... My $0.02. ---------- Chris "Spanky" Hessing Networking University of Utah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marriott Library Friends are people that know everything about you, but love you anyway. On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Garret Yoshimi wrote: > Daniel, > > I've also got an interest in the Vivato product (for mixed > inside/outside areas) and am interested in the comparisons you come up > with standard APs. > > Best regards. > garret > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Daniel Eklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:14 am > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x in WLAN design > > > Dewitt Latimer wrote: > > > > >I'm interested in the Vivato product as well -- are you using it > > for inside > > >coverage or for lighting up outside greenspace? > > > > > > > > We tested it inside our undergrad library. The results were pretty > > good, but I want to see the comparison to a standard AP before I > > get too > > excited. If it works out I would want to place a few around > > campus to > > hit the greenspaces. > > > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > > http://www.educause.edu/cg/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group > discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
