It might be too late in the game, but have you suggested working "With You" instead of "around you"?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11615/index.html "The 802.11a/b/g/n 2X3 MIMO built-in Cisco 3500 Access Point (AP) in the Cisco 819, comes with Cisco's CleanAir technology, to create a self-healing, self-optimizing WLAN." IE, instead of using the CalAmp device, use a Cisco one. Mike On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Watters, John <[email protected]> wrote: > ****** > > ** ** > > Our University police department is trying to use two devices that are > giving us a lot of grief. I am hoping that some of you will have experience > with either or both of these and can help me either (1) make them work in a > way that does not kill our campus network, or (2) convince them that there > is a better way to do what they want to do.**** > > ** ** > > The first thing they want to do is have the offices carry around a Verizon > cell phone set up as a WiFi hotspot so they will have access to the outside > world for their laptops when out of range of any University WiFi signal. I > think the main use of this if for emergency responders in case of a > tornado, etc. But, they want to be able to test them at any time in any > place.**** > > ** ** > > The second thing they want to do is install a CalAmp Fusion Multi-Network > LTE Router in each patrol car. This unit seems to have multiple wireless > protocols available to it including LTE bands running at 700 MHz, 1700 MHz, > & 2100 MHz plus CDMA bands running at 800 MHz plus WiFi running at 2.4 GHz > only. The point of this box seems to be to allow Internet communications > with the officers’ laptops via WiFi when they have them outside of the car. > **** > > ** ** > > It appears that neither the Verizon hotspot nor the CalAmp LTE router can > use the 5 GHz band.**** > > ** ** > > We are a Cisco shop with our wireless infrastructure under the control of > WiSM2 controllers. We run rogue AP containment. Right now we are containing > the hotspots & the CalAmp boxes as best we can. We can certainly white-list > these devices by MAC address or by SSID (I prefer MAC address). But, what I > worry about is the controllers chasing these rogues around campus > (remember, they both move a lot) and never really setting up the APs in the > locations where the devices are currently sitting to allow them to run. If > I remember correctly, the controller adjusts the frequencies of adjacent > APs under its control to avoid the white-listed devices only when they are > seen but not all the time. I worry that by the time they are seen and the > APs are adjusted to avoid them, the devices will have moved on to another > area and we have just killed 1/3 of our 2.4 GHz bandwidth in an area when > the devices have now left the area and these devices are now causing > problems in another place. It does appear that I can control the frequency > used by the CalAmp device. Not sure yet about whatever device they are > using for the Verizon hotspot.**** > > ** ** > > Has anyone had problems with setups such as these and what did you do to > resolve them?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > -jcw > **** > > * > * > > John Watters The ****University** of ** Alabama* > ******* > > Office of Information > Technology**** > > 205-348-3992**** > > **** > > ** ** > ********** 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/.
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