Westmont is a much smaller school than most of yours, with 1200 students on campus. 280 Meraki access points connected to 65 switches scattered in 58 buildings on about 60 acres of campus. Yesterday about 400 first year students arrived along with a couple hundred returning student volunteers for orientation, faculty, staff, and their parents. We had just shy of 3000 unique clients on the network. So far, only three reports of wireless problems have come in - but one refers to essentially all the rooms in a new dorm which is being occupied despite only barely being finished. The wireless signal has not been tuned there yet, and signal levels are low in the rooms. In the past year we had struggled with reports of devices connecting to newer access points even if they are more distant than older, nearer APs. In order to ameliorate this, over the summer we 'homogenized' buildings, grouping all 802.11N devices separate from 802.11AC . We'll see how that affects things. Our radios are a mix of MR14, MR18, MR33, MR34, MR53, MR58, with the majority MR14s, which are nearing end of service.
John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Ian Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > Good Morning > > > > Big changes from last year, we moved to Aruba > > We braced for the onslaught J armed with > > > > - 7210 Master Controller > - 2 7240’s for Local controllers (handling the traffic) > > > > - Airwave for monitoring > - Clearpass for Authentication (HA active pair) > > > > - We have 3 networks > > o 802.1x > > o Guest > > o Misc-Device – IOT, TV, Apple TV, Chromecast etc -and coffee > pots…cannot forget the coffee pots > > > > > > So far, as we just finished installing the 1200 aps’, we are ~800 303h’s > (1 in each dorm room) and ~500 325 Ap’s. > > > > To make things more interesting, we also upgraded our core from 1 gb to > pure 10gb and changed our Firewall to the Cisco FTD platform. > > > > So we truly have no benchmarking from last year but a lot of > expectations! LOL > > > > So far, the students are connecting quickly, successfully and getting to > their movies online. Which I call success! > > > > Ian Lyons > > Rollins College > > Network Engineer > > [email protected] > > > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeffrey D. Sessler > *Sent:* Friday, August 25, 2017 11:01 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems? > > > > Pair of 8540’s running 8.2.160 > > About half of all WAPs are now 2800/3800. 3800’s on multi-gig > > 20Gb Internet connection > > > > 3800-series equipped 110-bed residence hall, partially filled with a few > early arrivals, already seeing peaks at over 600Mbps. > > > > No observed problems yet, but our first-years just arrived and returning > student are due soon. > > > > Interesting stats: > > #1 - 70% of devices are Apple, 90% of traffic. On the 1st day our 330 > first-years arrived they did over 12TB of traffic. > > > > Jeff > > > > > > *From: *"[email protected]" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV. > EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV. > EDUCAUSE.EDU> > *Date: *Friday, August 25, 2017 at 6:22 AM > *To: *"[email protected]" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV. > EDUCAUSE.EDU> > *Subject: *[WIRELESS-LAN] Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems? > > > > It might be beneficial to share notes in case other schools are hitting > common problems. I’m wondering how everyone who is in the thick of it is > faring with back-to-school? > > > > On this end, we are doing OK halfway to our expected total daily peak > clients (we’re at 15K now high water mark). > > > > Our significant WLAN-related changes since end of Spring semester > > · Running 8.2.151 on our 8540s > > · Significant quantities of Wave 2 APs > > · ISE as RADIUS (only, no NAC, no onboarding) > > > > No changes to: > > · our guest WLAN (Clearpass/an Aruba controller pair) > > · onboarding (Cloudpath Wiz) > > · overall topology > > · open network in dorms for gadgets > > · non-use of AVC, it crapped out and never got solved after > hundreds of hours with TAC > > > > Fears: > > · We haven’t yet hit the scale that will reveal problems with any > of the newer stuff listed above > > > > Anyone else care to share? > > > > -Lee > > > > > > *Lee Badman* | Network Architect > > Certified Wireless Network Expert (#200) > Information Technology Services > 206 Machinery Hall > 120 Smith Drive > Syracuse, New York 13244 > > *t* 315.443.3003 <(315)%20443-3003> * f* 315.443.4325 <(315)%20443-4325> > *e* [email protected] *w* its.syr.edu > > > *SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY *syr.edu > > > > > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > discuss. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > discuss. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > discuss. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
