We get our stats from our NetReg system (home-made)
We are also running a script that measures counters on all our switches.
This will hopefully give us an idea of the distribution of used ports.
The idea being: turn off and remove unnecessary devices.
Our hope is that one or two switches per IDF will be enough to feed
Wireless AP and the few left over Wired ports (assuming an even
distribution!!!). The excess of switches
will be stored away as replacement parts...for the next 10 years ;-)
The energy savings will also be substantial.
I'm measuring switches consumption (with an off-the shelve "kill-a-
watt" device)
on idle and under load...more numbers to come!
An last but not least: we might be able to drop the temperature to less
than 110 Fahrenheit, in the summer, in our outdated dorm IDFs!
the bad news for us (good news for the wireless vendor): we need to
add more APs to our dorms!
Philippe
Univ. of TN
On Aug 19, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Hector J Rios wrote:
I’ll get back to you in two weeks. We finally finished installing
wireless in all our dorms. Where do you get your stats? Airwave?
Hector Rios
Louisiana State University
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interesting Numbers...
Our students came back last W-E.
8.448 computers registered in the dorms. Of those, 287 were gaming
devices registered in the dorms and 572 were wired Ethernet
connections in the dorms.
So about 10% of the registered machines are using the wire in
dormitories!
Do you see similar trends?
Philippe Hanset
Univ. of TN
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