We use Cisco 829’s for vehicles here, mainly squad cars, and have just been asked to add wifi hotspots to some shuttle busses. My plan is to use the same Cisco 829’s for that as well. For our currently deployed 829’s we use cellular unlimited data plans from ATT and Verizon. The units connect back to campus via a FlexVPN config on the routers to two ASR1000’s acting as redundant hubs. We use BGP within the FlexVPN to exchange routes on the 829’s and the campus. Depending on the particular setup we either tunnel all traffic back do campus or only tunnel campus bound traffic. We do this by setting up different BGP dynamic listen ranges with different peer-group configurations to determine what routes we send to the particular 829.
We use the built in AP on the 829. While it is only 802.11n AP I doubt you will find a cellular carrier who can transmit/receive at the full rate of 802.11n for it to matter, if you do let me know what carrier that is :) We have the AP’s in autonomous mode vs capwap back to the controller. While it has been considered to run them via capwap we currently are not just to be consistent as we also use the 829 wifi radios for wifi backhaul as a work group bridge (WGB) and just wanted to maintain consistency with the mode the AP is in on the 829’s. Plus there is no additional capwap overhead to worry about. You still have the ability on the autonomous config to point to a RADIUS server for authentication so you can still utilize eduroam for 802.1x. We have been able to use these same 829’s on some camera trailers as well where they are constantly transmitting video over cellular and haven’t had any issues with the unlimited data plans. Each carrier is different how they handle unlimited plans. For instance some may throttle after a certain amount on the entire network while others based on tower. With something mobile like a bus its probably going to not be a issue of being throttled if its a carrier by tower since your constantly moving. Some, such as ATT have told me they only throttle you if the tower is congested and you are above a certain mostly bandwidth usage. Happy to talk more with you about what we have done. Nick Ciesinski On Aug 16, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Watson,Nancy A <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We have eduroam on our Cisco Campus Controllers working well. I need to transition from campus to a bus and have that be a good experience over 4G. I am looking for someone that has done eduroam on buses and how they approached that. I am testing mobile routers on the bus, included in the test are pepwave, cradlepoint and cisco 829. I am using a Cisco AP with the non-Cisco vendor to build a capwap tunnel back to campus over 4G. On the Cisco 829 I am using an embedded ap with capwap tunnel. I also have a dmvpn 829 setup with embedded ap. There may be another solution that I am missing. Thank you for your response. Nancy ________________________________ Nancy Watson Engineer, Network Services - UFIT [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, (352) 273-1057 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Yahya M. Jaber <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 9:24 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam ssid on RTS Hi Nancy, To be exact, what kind of info do you want? How to setup eduroam? How to setup wifi on buses? Yahya Jaber. Sr. Wireless Engineer IT Network & Communications – Engineering Building 14, Level 3, Rm 308-WS07 KAUST 23955-6900 Thuwal, KSA Email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Office +966 (0) 12 8081237 Mobile +966 (0) 558697555 On Call Rotation Mobile: +966 54 470 1177 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Watson,Nancy A Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 15:10 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam ssid on RTS I am involved in a joint project with RTS to run eduroam on the city buses that pass through our campus to service the students. We are currently a Cisco Shop and I was curious if anyone has done anything like this with Cisco or any other vendor. 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