Due to the room density and building materials (cement block) we put one in each room.
We got a good deal from Cisco and the cost was about 1/3 of a full power AP. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Carter Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:59 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings What's the density of these? With 700 beds, it doesn't sound like one AP per room. Just curious about the trade-offs in cost vs coverage compared to more traditional APs. Thomas Carter Network & Operations Manager / IT Austin College 900 North Grand Avenue Sherman, TX 75090 Phone: 903-813-2564 www.austincollege.edu<http://www.austincollege.edu/> [http://www.austincollege.edu/images/AusColl_Logo_Email.gif] From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Brisson Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:07 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings We've deployed around 150 or so in one complex although we're fortunate to have them mounted just to the left or right of the door at about waist level. Still have the concerns about getting knocked around with furniture, but so far so good. Hopefully the DNS discovery issues have been resolved as we have another 180 or so going in this winter into a new 700 bed building. -dan Dan Brisson Network Engineer University of Vermont From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Lyons Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:52 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings They are designed to cover the room itself. Rollins has found that it does do that, even with the furniture covering it. It actually helps limit the signal propagation (2.4). Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hector J Rios Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:36 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings One of my biggest concerns has always been the height at which these WAPs get installed (as you mentioned, 1.5ft). In most of our residential buildings, the data ports happen to be right behind desks that are provided by ResLife and the desks have covers in the back that essentially would bump against the WAP. Not to mention the fact that as furniture gets moved around, there is always the potential of knocking down the WAP. I wonder how has already deployed them in a similar fashion and what the experience has been? If you end up using them, I'd be curious to see how things work out. Best, Hector Rios Louisiana State University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Devyn Moore Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 9:49 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings All, Our housing department wants us to look at these for wide-scale deployment in 11 residence halls within the next 2-3 years due to cost reduction in cable installation with our previous designs. This will be a one AP per room deployment utilizing current wiring infrastructure, where Aps were previously in the hallways (2600, 3500). We're planning to configure the cells to a lower transmit power as well as assigning channels based on zero occupancy with 20MHz channels. Our ability to get into these buildings in order to resolve rogue issues is severely limited already because we are required to have a Residential Technician (from the housing department) with us when visiting student rooms. That's only going to get worse when we lose visibility that we currently have with our current deployments in the halls. We're also not planning to enable the ethernet ports because those aren't in scope for the Proof of Concept due to crashed timelines provided by the department. We're currently running 8.0.133.0 and have been incredibly stable (no AVC, no IPv6, 802.1x for primary SSID, web auth guest). We don't use ISE, but use FreeRADIUS for wireless auth. We're running two pairs of Hot/Standby 8510s with a mixture of 2600, 2700, 3500, 3600 and 3700 series APs, but would like to start integrating 2800 and 3800 series APs - separate from the housing request. I am targeting 8.2.121.7 for our upgrade in order to get around some bugs that I've seen mentioned here as we also start testing 2800/3800 in our environment. Has anyone had any issues with 1810w in dense cell deployments like residential hall buildings? Issues with damaged devices due to installation locations on wall approximately 1.5ft (45cm) from the floor? Have there been any issues with SSO HA with 8.2.121.7? Anything else you'd like to share about the 1810ws? Thanks in advance for the feedback. -- Devyn Moore Network Enterprise Systems Team Leader Campus Wireless Network Engineer Information Technology Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/devyn ********** 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/. ********** 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/. ********** 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/.
