Unfortunately no.  I was scribbling on index cards as Ryan and I were 
alternating the discussion.  If there are specific areas of interest, let's get 
a conversation started on the list though.

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Norman Elton
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 7:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Annual Conference (Anaheim) Wireless-LAN session 
notes

I agree, all look like good "trending topics".

>> I’m not going to include all of my notes from the session or this email will 
>> be painfully long.

To the contrary, I've love to review your notes. If they're already electronic, 
would you mind sharing a copy?

Thanks!

Norman Elton
William & Mary

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brian Helman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> As I said Friday when I sent out the notes from the NETMAN session, 
> let me start off my apologizing for taking a full month to get these 
> out…
>
>
>
> Secondly, again a huge thanks to Ryan Turner (UNC Chapel Hill) for 
> putting the surveys together for both the Wireless-LAN and NETMAN 
> discussions.  Also as I said Friday, this is the first time we tried 
> this method.  I think we worked the bugs out during the NETMAN 
> session, making the limited Wireless-LAN session time more efficient …
>
>
>
> I’m not going to include all of my notes from the session or this 
> email will be painfully long.  I’ve commented on some topics, but 
> hopefully this list will spur continued conversation on the list.  
> I’ve also included a few items from the NETMAN session that touched on 
> wireless networking (first 3 bullet items).
>
>
>
> Just a quick metric, we had 57 people in the session, representing  
> ~50 different institutions.
>
>
>
> Top Trending Topics
>
> ·         NAC (just doesn’t want to go away) – onboarding for both wired and
> wireless networks
>
> ·         Use of “hospitality wireless units” such as the Aruba 205H
> (physically, where are they being places?  For lower installs, are 
> they being damaged?)
>
> ·         People are just now starting to look at MGBase-T (2.5/5Gbs
> Ethernet, especially for access point uplinks)
>
> ·         Wireless performance – how best to measure/test
>
> ·         2.4GHz vs 5GHz – clients still preferring 2.4GHz unless radio very
> close
>
> ·         How are you designing your placement of AP’s – checkboard vs every
> room
>
> o   Is there a placebo effect – if the AP isn’t in the room, do people
> complain that their signal isn’t good even if the signal strength is 
> excellent?
>
> ·         20MHz vs 40HMz vs 80MHz channels
>
> ·         Transitioning vendors
>
> o   Who are you currently with; who are you moving to?
>
> o   Cisco & Aruba are dominating the industry (of the 50ish unique
> institutions, Cisco and Aruba were about equal, combined accounting 
> for 90% of the installs.  There were no more than 2 institutions using 
> the same vendor).
>
> ·         TLS vs PEAP vs MSCHAPv2 – discussion about forcing install of
> certs on Guest Wireless
>
> ·         EDUROAM – mix of using EDUROAM as primary SSID
>
> o   Branding was not a driving force for not/using
> institutionally-associated SSID name (e.g SalemState)
>
> o   Dual SSID’s was common to begin rollout, with intention of only using
> EDUROAM down the line
>
> ·         Open wireless – moving toward (1) or away (4)
>
> ·         Usual issues with students bringing up their own hotspots in
> ResNet settings
>
> ·         Has anyone adopted WiFi calling?
>
>
>
> To those who attended, thank you (especially considering it was such 
> an early start!).  If you didn’t .. next year we’re in Philadelphia.  
> We hope to see you there!
>
>
>
> -Brian Helman, Salem State University
>
> -Ryan Turner, UNC Chapel Hill
>
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