Campus Deployment of Wireless Technology Presented to Information Services Committee November

Background Summer of 2003 deployed a WLAN solution across entire McLaughlin Library. A partnership with the Library and CCS. Project was very successful and received very well by the community. Dramatic increase of inquiries from other campus groups about WLAN deployments.

Background (Con’t) Feb/04, ISC struck a task group to develop a WLAN policy for the University. May/04, ISC receives and accepts the work of the task group (can be viewed at CCS web site). CCS commits to present a strategy for campus deployment for WLAN to ISC by the Fall/04.

Why a Campus Deployment Strategy? Provide true mobility (Anytime, anywhere access) to the community. Prevent signal interference and service degrading from competing access points. Network security, guard against attacks by hackers. WLAN is a complementary technology that enhances our investment in the campus wired network infrastructure.

Deployment Strategy Staged approach to the deployment. Shared costs between CCS and the participating colleges and directorates. CCS responsible for the site survey, central infrastructure upgrades costs and on-going maintenance. Colleges and directorates responsible for the access point costs in the buildings (one-time charge).

Deployment Strategy (Con’t) First step is a campus wide site survey. Proposed start date of March/05, 6 – 8 months to complete. Next step, deployment to the buildings. Will be scheduled to meet the requests from the community. Partial building deployments are feasible.

Next Steps Feedback from ISC. Communication with the community. RFP for the Site Survey.