We've got a building that we "own", but have various tenants. We have one tenant that is located across the street, but we have a local connection, so have set up a mobility anchor with them from our controller to their controller. We broadcast their wi-fi, but everything tunnels back to them - Association, Authentication, IP addressing, routing, etc. The other tenants, we've managed to keep a visitor SSID (captive portal, accept policy, get online), and a generic 802.1x SSID that goes to a different radius server than the campus students/staff/faculty authenticate against. Once we do eduroam campus wide, we'll be at 6 SSID's, and that's really the most I want to do (more than, really).
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathan Hay Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Multi-tenant wireless question We have an interesting design problem that I thought I would toss out for ideas. Using 1042 and 1602 APs with a single 7510 controller. We have two of our companies sharing building space (the spaces are inter-mingled, not separate suites), however they have separate routers and ISPs and they are not routed between each other back at our core. I can cover the space with 3 wireless access points, but I need to have different SSIDs and keep their wireless completely separate, connected back to each companies respective routers. My current best option is to deploy 6 APs (3 for each) and use RF profiles to keep them from turning their power down too low since each pair will be 10 feet apart or so. This also costs me twice as much. Another option we are tossing around is connecting a cable between the two router/switch setups to allow us to map the SSIDs to a VLAN on each router. This causes future support issues though and if this connecting cable is every moved (very likely to happen) it could cause issues. Also, all the authentication/management traffic would go out one of the routers, so if that one goes down, the other company loses their wireless as well. Anyone have any creative ideas? Nathan Hay Network Engineer | NOC WinWholesale Inc. 888-225-5947 **************************************************************************** ***************** This email message and any attachments is for use only by the named addressee(s) and may contain confidential, privileged and/or proprietary information. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete and destroy the message and all copies. All unauthorized direct or indirect use or disclosure of this message is strictly prohibited. No right to confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any error in transmission. **************************************************************************** ***************** ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. !DSPAM:911,5267dad7111141367916992! ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
