We petition our tech fee council for money to perform wireless upgrades. Students consider having the latest WiFi technologies essential so they have yet to turn down a request. We upgrade APs in the areas that serve mostly students using this money and the older APs usually get trickled to faculty areas, until they are really old and then get sent to surplus.
-------------------------------------------------- Gavin Pyle Network Engineer Green River Community College [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Breathe easy – Green River is now tobacco-free!<http://www.greenriver.edu/about-grcc/policies-and-procedures/new-policies/ga-02-tobacco-use.htm> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oliver Elliott Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 1:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Replacing ageing APs 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]<mailto:[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/.
