We stopped using them.
There are no moving parts, so we don't need dust protection.
All of the current generation of APs are plenum.
And security: If the AP is on top of the drop ceiling, out of sight,
then its out of mind. In our environment we don't need any additional
security (As evidenced by the fact that we haven't had a single loss
even in student dorm buildings, even ones where we had to place the
AP on the bare wall inside the student broom closets!). We do use the
integrated (although not exactly hardened) locking mechanism on the
Cisco 1232/1242 APs. In some situations we use kenningston-style
cable locks.
-porkchop
At 9:50 AM -0400 4/14/08, Jim Gogan wrote:
I'm curious to know what other campuses are doing in regards to
ceiling enclosures for access points.
We've been using PANDUIT-PZXIFIED and PANDUIT-PZW2X2DCB ceiling
enclosure hardware but our Facilities folks and our Infrastructure
Engineering folks in conversations with the State Building Code
officers have determined that the labor/installation costs for those
enclosures are now going to go up (see below) and, well suffice it
to say, when it gets to the point that the enclosures themselves
start to get closer in cost to the APs, you gotta wonder.
Would be interested to hear what others are doing in this regard.
Thanks in advance.
--
Michael "Porkchop" Kaegler, Sr. Network Analyst
(845) 575-3061 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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