Same here --- for a long time, our refresh budget consisted of whatever the Provost had available near the end of the fiscal year (yeah, THAT'S sustainable .....); two years ago, we were finally able to get through an entirely new model for network funding that was based on a payroll tax (a fixed percentage of faculty-staff payroll budget per department) on all departments and a student fee re-allocation at the same rate as the payroll tax. So far, so good.
What helped is that we didn't have to originate that payroll tax concept; our Campus Services unit had already gotten that concept approved to pay for the University's share of the town-and-gown bus system. We just took advantage of the precedent. I'm unable to provide the full advisory committee report that researched and recommended the new funding model to the Chancellor, but this link: http://its.unc.edu/commtechnology/communication-technologies/new-funding-model-faq/ should give most of the details. Now the challenge is managing expectations in terms of WHO'S getting upgraded each year. -- Jim Gogan / ITS Comm Tech UNC-Chapel Hill -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Eklund Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 8:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Replacing ageing APs Oli, The University of Michigan has been in a similar position until recently. We are moving toward a funding model whereby units will provide central IT with funding sufficient to cover their portion of the wired and wireless infrastructure on campus. The initial refresh of WiFi is being provided by one-time funding. We already do this for the core network on campus, as well as for our Internet connections, so we are pretty confident that this will move forward since everyone wants to have a reliable and up to date network. -- Daniel Eklund Network Planning Manager ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers University of Michigan 734.763.6389 On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Oliver Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I've been looking into EOLs and end of software support for some of > our older APs and was wondering what other institutions do to keep > their estate up to date. Up to now we've had very sparse funding for > wireless as it was always viewed as an add on service. A recent outage > (caused by buggy 7.6.120 > code) has shown just how important Wifi has become. Up to now APs have > been largely installed on an ad-hoc basis with funding from > departments or projects but this doesn't tend to account for EOL replacement. > > We're looking to apply for a formal replacement project based on > either rolling yearly replacement budget or a big bang approach every few > years. > > So, how do you guys handle this problem? > > Oli > -- > Oliver Elliott > Network Specialist > IT Services > University of Bristol > e: [email protected] > t: 0117 92 (87861) > ********** 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/.
