We worked with Bluesocket to develop a feature set that allows guests to sponsor themselves by 10-digit cell phone number. It takes seconds, and the system texts them their password. Secondarily, anyone on campus can sponsor guests through the same box. We also do quite a bit more and have found the Bluesocket to be a nice way of answering a number of oddball wireless problems that don't really fit in other categories, so it has been great.
You can set limits on bandwidth, length of guest account, firewall-style rules, etc for accounts with the appliance. Cost-effective, simple setup, and very reliable. The appliance we use is actually a Bluesocket wireless controller that happens to have a great guest module- I do wish they had a dedicated guest-specific appliance but regardless of the extra features we don't use being under the hood, the box has really been an elegant fit for our needs that our big honkin' WLAN architecture couldn't come close to solving. -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Entwistle, Bruce Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Visitor access We are having a increasing number of parents and prospective students who are visiting to tour the campus requesting access to our wireless network. I was wondering what other schools are doing to accommodate these requests. Thank you Bruce Entwistle Network Manager University of Redlands ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
