Good stuff- I hope we get some users after rolling it out. I did poll our distributed support folks, and as of yet can’t find any hidden demand. At the same time, we don’t know what we don’t know, ya know?
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hanset, Philippe C Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam rollout- one more time Lee, To answer 2 and 3, I have seen many schools that were amazed at how many eduroam users they had from all over the world and in many locations (visiting scientists in labs, students from abroad in greenhouses!,...you name it) Here is a graph from University of Chicago (yes, they are known for having a big International presence...but that was just in the first 3 months, and it was back in 2010!!!) On Nov 1, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I know this comes up frequently, so forgive me. We’re at a different place than we were at last inquiry… Syracuse University has become an Eduroam school, and as we speak we have happy Eduroamers around the world. Woo Woo! At the same time, we have yet to roll out Eduroam on our own campus and are getting ready to in accordance to the Eduroam agreement. We’re trying to figure out the best model: 1. Retire our own beloved 802.1x SSID, and use Eduroam in its place. This has no favor with any of us, including our senior IT managers and so is not gonna happen. (Though I value the opinions of others, not wanting to get into a debate on this point ☺ ) 2. Do a targeted rollout of Eduroam, in places where it is likely to be used by visitors- academic buildings, etc. (So far, I can’t find evidence of anyone coming to SU and asking for it). This model requires building a new WLAN group or two and pushing it out to probably 20ish buildings out of our 200+ buildings. 3. Go the easy path, and push it the Eduroam SSID everywhere, as an additional WLAN, and live with the fact that it won’t get a lot of use in most places and puts management traffic in the air that isn’t generally going to be used. I can’t be the only one who has stood at this juncture and looked at the situation the same way. Wondering what others have done between #2 and #3, and what your level of satisfaction has been for whatever path you took. Regards, Lee Badman Syracuse University ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found athttp://www.educause.edu/groups/.
