Great for Branch Offices where you want you control traffic to be send to the campus controllers but the user traffic to stay on the local network/broadband (especially important if people need to access a lot of digital resources local to the Branch office). We used them for Agricultural Extensions. We figured a cost per AP on a controller (includes cost of controller + licenses + Airwave + 5 years of support, ....) + Cost of the AP itself. Then we either have a local IT person or we use a remote contractor (but we also make sure to have someone that can reboot "stuff" locally ..known remote hands ...get a few phones numbers and reference them!!!) In the old days, I always made sure to have a FAX number... that way when we had an AP going down I would call the FAX machine to see if it were a Power Outage! But FAX machines are disappearing, so always have a few local numbers of people that can be called (and reference it in your on-call documentation)
Philippe Philippe Hanset www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us> On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Turner, Ryan H <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Can those of you that use Remote Access Points give me the common use cases that you are seeing them used, how you are charging for them, and support issues you generally receive from them? We are considering starting to do some RAP deployment here, and I’m wondering how much of a can of worms I am opening. Thanks! Ryan H Turner Senior Network Engineer The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 +1 919 445 0113 Office +1 919 274 7926 Mobile ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found athttp://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
