WIRELESS UPGRADE AS A PROCESS How does IT upgrade a building to improve the wireless experience

Criteria for Building Choice Analysis of existing coverage in buildings campus wide. Decision for the first 9 based on buildings most lacking in adequate coverage. Building size, construction type and client density determines the number of APs installed. Use Aruba planning tool to provide visual representation of coverage with additional access points.

Costs associated with upgrade Funding for this project was provided by the CIO IT office. Cost of access point. Model of access point used for a particular location is based on area to be covered and anticipated number of clients expected. Additional switch ports might be need to connect the additional access points adding to project costs. Cabling for new AP locations can add varying levels of additional cost due building design and construction.

1 st -Top 9 Bandelier Hall East (8)(4 original/17 APs after upgrade) Economics (57) (7 original/18 APs after upgrade) Mechanical Engineering (122)(18 original/58 APs after upgrade) Northrop Hall (24)(24 original/49 APs after upgrade) Ortega Hall (79)(38 original/61 APs after upgrade) Regener (35)(11 original/22 APs after upgrade) Scholes Hall (10) (23 original/66 APs after upgrade) Social Sciences (78) (11 original/40 APs after upgrade) University Advisement and Enrichment Center (85)(28 original/63 APs after upgrade)

Specifications Old vs New Aruba 105 Dual Radio supporting 2.4GHz + 5GHz Both radios n capable Up to 300Mbps per radio 40 mhz channel bandwidth on N. Aruba 205 Dual radio, 5-GHz ac and 2.4-GHz n Up to 867 Mbps wireless data rate 80 mhz channel bandwidth AC (wave 2 allow for 160 mhz channel’s).

Regener Hall Floor plan before wireless installation.

Regener Hall Original deployment Original installation with last gen APs. Coverage based on budget constraints.

Regener Hall After Upgrade Predicted coverage after installation of updated and additional APs (21 APs total).

Procurement of Equipment for upgrade Create cost estimate for equipment based on Air Wave Heat map Request price quote for equipment from vendor After quote is received create request to order equipment and when approved place the order for the equipment with the vendor When equipment arrives do and inventory and begin the provisioning process

Provisioning of APs on Controller Do an inventory of the controllers to determine which one has sufficient unused capacity to allow provisioning of all the APs for a building on that controller. Naming of the AP provides building information as well as the room it is installed in (ie:Regener-119-AP-1)

Regener Inventory Sheet

Switch Configuration for access point Specific vlan for each zone to provide exclusive subnet for ap communication with the controller. Client traffic is encapsulated in a GRE tunnel established between the ap and controller. (doesn't equal encryption over the air between client and ap). Power is provided to the ap via POE(power over Ethernet) via the switch. interface GigabitEthernet1/0/48 port link-mode bridge description Regener-103-AP-9 port access vlan 805 poe enable

Wrap up of building upgrade Building ap inventory spreadsheet is updated after all APs are patched and online to include the switch port the access point is connected to and the patch panel port (ie: 1503). Building IBN (Intra-building network) is updated to also reflect the new ap installation. The controller is double checked to insure the ap has properly joined and doesn’t indicate any errors.

Wrap up of building upgrade

Clearpass Clearpass is the access control solution at UNM. Clearpass provides many access control solutions (ie:LDAP, AD, Radius, local database). Guest user access can be provided via sponsor based guest accounts or guest self registration. Roles can be assigned via clear pass authentication allowing control over what network resources a given user has access to.

Trouble shooting with Clearpass Access Tracker User submitted ticket stating they could not connect to the wireless network. Clear pass access tracker indicated that client was rejected.

Trouble shooting with Clearpass Access Tracker Checking the alerts section of access tracker for this client indicated a login failure.

Trouble shooting with Clearpass Access Tracker After advising client to double check login, password and try again Client successful logins onto to the wireless network.

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