Ditto on Eric's reply. Used by our professional help desk and systems staff and 
at remote school locations.  Support - the users bring in their client devices 
and we test on a unit in our repair center.  If there is anything wrong with 
the RAP, we replace it from spares and deal with the bad hardware in the shop.

Simple, useful and keeps our clients on our firewall and protected, like the 
rest of the campus.

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Brewer
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 12:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba RAPs

Two major uses so far:  Remote "pieces" of the campus such as an environmental 
classroom off in the woods, a "campus" school a few blocks off-campus, an 
equestrian center across a busy highway where we don't have a right-of-way.  
And our own systems staff so they can tunnel in easily from home/travel to work 
on systems problems.  We pay for all of them.  The only issue we've had is one 
of the older units gets confused easily (a link to an outsourced support center 
on Prince Edward Island) so it's being replaced as we speak.

- Eric Brewer
Smith College

On Fri, 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<tel:%2B1%20919%20445%200113> Office
+1 919 274 7926<tel:%2B1%20919%20274%207926> Mobile

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