Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services IT Briefing Agenda 8/19/04 NetReg Update Wireless Update & Demo SP2 Knowledge Sharing Jay Flanagan Paul Petersen All

Information Technology at Emory Wireless Update & Demo

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Agenda Short History of the Wireless Project Current Project Status How Emory’s Wireless Works Demonstration

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless History 1/27/04: Ways & Means Meeting –Presented NetCom’s initial research –Asked to proceed with infrastructure development using NetCom funds –Asked to estimate cost of campus wide wireless –Asked to analyze different billing models

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless History cont. 4/13/04: Ways & Means Meeting –Presented campus wide estimate and billing models –Asked to build list of University only common areas that would benefit the most from wireless access –Asked to estimate cost of common area installation

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless History cont. 6/8/04: Ways & Means Meeting –Presented wireless common areas, installation cost and operational cost –Startup operational funding model approved –Wireless announcement and approval process identified –Netcom approved to move forward with common area installation

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless Project Status All three wireless pilots complete Management system and support infrastructure in place Netcom wireless workgroup and ITD/NetCom wireless planning group established Wireless support positions identified and recruiting has begun

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless Project Next Steps Complete installation of wireless networking for University users in common areas Install wireless in requested areas based on appropriate request procedures (Healthcare or University)

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless Common Areas Ways & Means approved the following areas to be funded centrally and installation efforts have begun –Woodruff Library –Cox Hall –SAAC –Dobbs University Center –Quadrangle –Health Sciences Center Quad

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Wireless Equipment Access Points manufactured by Colubris Networks –Named “hottest startup” at Supercomm –Deployed by over 500 companies and Universities McDonalds, University British Columbia, McGill University, Nagoya University, AT&T, Marriott, Hilton, Barnes and Noble,…

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Security Security and Authenticated Access is achieved using VPN (PPTP) –VPN is supported on the widest variety of clients –As new wireless authentication and encryption standards are ratified we will be able to transition

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services The Parts

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services How it works Wireless Client associates to the Access Point (AP) and is given a private IP address by DHCP server on the AP Wireless Client establishes VPN (PPTP) tunnel to AP. AP uses campus Radius servers to check authentication credentials Campus DHCP server provides global IP address to wireless client Wireless Client is on the network

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services Demonstration

Information Technology at Emory Information Technology Division Technical Services NetCom