See below announcements about upcoming events and activities for the Wireless-LAN Group. Part of this message has been cross-posted to the Netman List.
Chicago 2019 Recap I realize (again) I'm overdue in providing a recap about the last Annual Conference which took place in October at the Chicago Convention Center. At the conference, we again had a combined session with the Wireless-LAN group. But this year we combined the timeframe of both Community Group sessions as one super session. Eric Kenny from Harvard and Ian Lyons from Rollins, Co-Leads of Wireless-LAN, helped Ryan Turner and myself facilitate a joint session of 1 hour, 45 minutes. The session was attended by about 80 people, but it could have been a lot more. Due to constraints at the Chicago Convention Center, the room we were in was only capable of holding 80 people. The session started off with 2 presentations of roughly 10-15 minutes. The first presenter was Will Whitaker from UNC-Chapel Hill on DOH (or DNS over HTTPS) and the second presenter was Steven Lee from Virginia Tech on NetRecon (Open Source Centralized Logging with ELK). Let me again express our gratitude to both presenters as they each shared valuable insight and helped us kick off the broader discussion for the remaining 1 hour and 15 minutes. The last part of the session was a free-form discussion based on topics that were submitted by attendees who then voted on topic(s) of most interest. We started discussing the topics with the highest amount of votes until we ran out of time. Unfortunately, the voting isn't full representative of all the topics of interest and rank because I mistakenly closed the voting as we were starting to kick off the discussion. But for the topics that were submitted and voted on, here are the topics that we discussed: Votes Topics 11 Monitoring and logging - what to keep and what to feed the siem 11 Supporting IOT Devices on Campus Networks 5 Who is looking to drop Cisco when they eol the 5508 controller? Are you looking for a new controller solution or cloud etc? 4 Firewalls in the cloud. Are you using native tools or bringing your 3rd party devices? Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Sonicwall, ect... What worked well, what didn't? 4 Analytics tools (Nyansa, extrahop and beyond) 3 Authentication to the network: MAC Auth, 802.1x, certs? 3 Is anyone using Ansible for orchestration/automation? If so what for? 3 Are people rolling out traditional DAS, allowing carriers to install local cells on your network, just defaulting to the phones' WiFi calling features, doing nothing and hoping the problem goes away? 3 IPv6 : are you doing it? 3 Integrated network monitoring tools for WiFi and Wired infrastructure In addition to the above topics, we also had 2 topics that were introduced in the middle of the discussion: 1) Ryan Turner asked about what other schools are doing to mix high-demand Audio-Visual applications on their production data network. 2) There was an open topic of burning interest where an attendee asked what to look for in evaluating vendors, particularly related to WiFi. There were other topics submitted, but we ran out of time before we could discuss them. The topics that we didn't have time to discuss were: - What is everyone looking at as far as Intent-Based Network, if anything. - Starting regular (monthly?) CG calls for topics of interest to keep the conversation going. Something like what the commtech and it's a groups are doing. - Selling IPv4 addresses, is there a market - Anyone experiencing interference with wireless spectrum and new lighting systems? - Baremetal or white box hardware. What is a good way to start? - Who is doing automated quarantining of wireless clients? - Clever tricks with packet brokers like bigswitch - Decrypting network traffic. Do you do it? Performance impact? Community backlash? - High bandwidth video delivery over IP for class room tech. We are just starting to see the demand for this with Crestron NVX deployments. Are other seeing this need? What is your approach? - Analytics and historical review with zeke, corelight, niksun or others. - Headaches and solutions to onboarding WiFi clients As has happened in other years, the number of attendees who weren't aware of the Community Groups (Netman or Wireless-LAN) is consistent with what we've seen in past years. Out of the 80 people that joined the session, we had 47 fill out the Roster sheet. One of the questions on the Roster was whether one knew about the CG groups and if they wanted to join. We had 24 out of 47 say they weren't familiar with the CG groups and 19 of which said they wanted to be signed up. It's always a surprise to learn how many of our peers aren't familiar with the Educause CG Groups. Please take any opportunity you can to let your colleagues know about the NetMan and Wireless-LAN lists as we feel more participation is better. Coming Up - Boston 2020 and Quarterly Virtual Sessions Assuming physical distancing isn't necessary by October 2020 at next year's annual conference in Boston, we're hoping to have a much larger room to host our in-person session that can accommodate a lot more people so everyone that wants to join can participate. We're also planning to have another joint session with the Wireless-LAN group. Like last year, we're looking for at least 2 presenters to discuss topics that would be relevant to the groups at the beginning of the joint session.. Details on the session(s) and how we will be organizing presenters will be announced over the summer. Last, we've taken everyone's feedback in mind in the Netman list about a virtual session that we'll host at least once per quarter. The Netman team is co-partnering with Ian Lyons and Eric Kenny of the Wireless-LAN community group to facilitate this online virtual meeting. The plan was to first talk about Network Monitoring and Management tools for the first virtual session. However, because we've all now become totally immersed in handling the coronavirus pandemic and accommodating remote-learning and working remote, we'd like to use this topic as the focus of our first virtual session. I'll follow up with a Doodle poll asking people to vote for the best day and time for us to host the meeting . Because of the concern of Zoom Bombing, we're asking that everyone enter their email address in the Doodle poll so we can send you a link ahead of time for the virtual meeting. Stay tuned as we'll be sending a link to the poll shortly. -- Mike Ferguson Network Manager Chapman University One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866 714-744-7873 Chapman.edu ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. 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