Stages of wireless adoption - Poll (Kind of)

[catch21]

2.5 for us, definately not yet in the full enterprise arena, nor do we need to be. (400+ pupil primary)

 

I found out that if you inherit a ten year old wired n/w with 100Mbps switches and occasional domestic quality access points resting on the top of cupboards it rather pays not to upgrade your core. If you wait long enough the appeal of wifi will highlight the patheticness of the present solution and funds will appear, followed by some more funds to upgrade the core, cabs, etc. Worked for me.

 

And to add...I chose Ruckus. Two 'consultants' offered us top price netgear and dlink solutions [with one eye on Mercedes Benz catalogues I think]. I chose, because no one else would, and I chose Ruckus because after a great deal of googling I could not find a bad word about them. I have been very pleased with the solution, so has everyone else in school.

Edited October 19, 2013 by catch21

[mrbios]

We were between 2 + 3 in the summer, now we're move of a 2.9 and I'm currently working on becoming a 3 as my main project at the moment.

 

About 4 years ago my manager bought into Aruba, no real investigation was done in to different products, features etc so I've kind of had this one thrust upon me by force rather than choice. It has turned out to be a good choice through sheer blind luck though, I've currently got 22 APs on a 3200 mobility controller (Probably need another 10-15 for 100% coverage though, it's patchy in areas and our maths + drama depts currently have no wifi at all).

 

For quite a long time we had 6 APs in the main guest visted area of the school and two SSIDs - one with a simple WPA password and the other which was open but only accessible through a captive portal login guests could get through our receptionist or librarian (rest of the school had hp AP 420 basic access points). Now though we're finally getting round to making it fully BYOD compatible, implementing RADIUS on two SSIDs, one for internal domain connected devices with full network access, one with intermediary access with captive portal + Device enrollment capability, then a guest system which will be firewalled off from the main network in a walled garden scenario granting guest users + student devices access to the internet connection only(each on their own vlans i should add).

 

Quite enjoying learning the Aruba system at the moment, I've got an 850 page configuration guide for the controller alone, then a further 100 pages for configuring clearpass + airgroup. Safe to say I'm being kept busy.....Not the cheapest of systems though by any means, so I'm glad it's something we've expanded on over time rather than all in one go.

[bossman]

Secondary school approx 750 students, 120 staff, Aerohive installed and configured by LAN3 full school coverage except for the sports-hall which is a separate building which had its own cisco wireless APs 1140s.

 

We are at stage 3 as we have BYOD although not fully utilised by the staff and students.

 

Approximately 120 different mobile devices ranging from HP100e netbooks to Ipad's to nexus 7's etc

[kennysarmy]

Site wide MERU here - primarily BYOD but laptops in DT (8), Library (10) & Science (16) & 8 teachers with ipad mini's and apple TV's.

[Oaktech]

we are using equipment to comply with section 3, but we only have enough of it to comply with 2.