That has been one of our concerns as well. People increasingly (due to some internal budget / property accounting rule changes) are getting laptops and devices they can take off-campus, and our desktop management group has been starting to look at solutions which “phone home” for patches and upgrades and inventory control – those would at least somewhat ameliorate the lack of WoL.
Residence halls are almost all wireless, even if wired is available. Faculty and staff offices are still all wired to PCs. Imaging and backups and all the virtualized applications and cloud based computing works better when users are on Gigabit instead of contending for airtime, but this of course again depends heavily on your users. Faculty and staff doing video editing is completely different from a professor that only ever uses email and downloads the occasional article. -- Toivo Voll Network Engineer Information Technology Communications University of South Florida From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John York Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:48 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless as network standard? Our main problem with wireless-only was not having a good wake on LAN so we could push patches and upgrades. Thanks John From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ashfield, Matt (NBCC) Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:40 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless as network standard? Just curious if anyone has taken the leap and decided to only run wires where needed (ie, labs, servers, printers) and go wireless as the standard for the majority of their users. From the perspective of having old buildings, with aging/out-of-date wiring and hardware, it certainly seems like a viable option. Obviously wired connections will always have a place in the network, but since all our students use wifi as their primary connection method, why not the staff? Thoughts/input appreciated. Thanks Matt ********** 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/.
