All, We have an existing agreement with American Tower for our macro-sites but are looking at several companies to provide an in-building solution. I would recommend attending the ACUTA conference coming up in Texas, http://www.acuta.org/wcm/acuta/donna2/phoenix/ws14education.pdf from the last ACUTA conference in Phoenix, and checking out http://www.thedasforum.org/ for DAS information.
Douglas Burke Senior Director Network Infrastructure Systems & Services E-mail [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Bucklaew Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 5:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] DAS Wireless On 02/10/2014 11:22 AM, Ray DeJean wrote: > > All, > > We've been approached by wireless company to install a DAS > (distributed antenna system) throughout our campus. They would then > market the system to local carriers, which would increase their > coverage (we have pretty poor AT&T service on campus). There would be > revenue sharing and they've offered to assist in expanding our 802.11 > coverage as well. > > Just wondering if anyone else has entered into a similar agreement > with a wireless company, and how it's working out for you. > We worked a deal where verizon contracts with a third party to build a DAS system on our campus. This system is a multi-vendor system with verizon as the primary vendor. We are currently trying to get AT&T on the system as well. We have about 5 buildings on it currently and are doing a couple more this summer. The upside is it is all on verizon's dime. The downside is it is also all on their schedule. ********** 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/.
