AdamEdTech

I agree with just above every post here. There are data drops for printers in each classroom so we wont be printing wireless. My thoughts are we are really don't know what technology will look like 10-15 years from now. The school is not scheduled to open until 2017. The electricians tell me it will be 100 more per drop in each classroom but in a 25 million dollar project that cost is small. There will be offices in the center of a 4 classroom design with data drops for phones and printers as well. Some one above mentioned CCTV. We are being pitched an IPTV solution using streamvu. To deliver the CCTV and other educational programming to the classroom. Streamvu streams using HLS and can be paired with a device to stream multicast. Has anyone demo'd these products or a solution like this?

Good evening all, My name is Adam I have been monitoring the forums as a source if information for a while now and I love the amount of information I can find here. I have a question for the group. I am the Network Manager for a small-medium sized school district. 12000 students 900 teachers 8000 devices ( ipads, chromebooks, windows 7 laptops and desktops) 15 WAN sites 375 switches, 70 servers (most hyper v) AD integrated We are in the process of building a new K-5 elementary school around 40 classrooms and I was brought in the loop on the project today when I discovered the "team" decided this would be an all wireless school. Very few cat6 drops anywhere. Only 1 in each classroom for the teacher workstation and 1 in the ceiling for a LAN projector. Chromebooks will be device of choice for this school and there will be 12 per classroom. We do have a high density wireless infrastructure on all of our campuses currently. Cisco 2602 AP's, controller based in flex connect mode. With a WPA2 SSID and an 802.1X SSID. Cisco ISE and Cisco Prime for management. So while our wireless network is robust. Hearing for the first time there wouldn't be drops in the classrooms or labs at this new school for student work stations caught me by surprise. I feel like this is a bad idea but I can't put my finger on why. Other than the host of wireless issues we all face every day. Am I just afraid of the thought of an "wifi Only" design? We will have a Cisco 2602 AP in every classroom. Which brings me to my post title. What do you think? Pro's and Con's to this design concept? What drawbacks am I missing? Am I overlooking a few advantages?