eBVyou: Creating the Nations First Wireless Community

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eBVyou Creating the Nations First Wireless
Community

• Planning, Designing, and Implementing Behind the
  Scenes

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What BVU did

• We created what we like to call
• the nations first wireless community
• Campus-wide wireless network
• ALL full-time students and faculty equipped with
  Gateway Solo portable computers and Avaya
  wireless network cards

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Why eBVyou?

• Already today, belonging to a digital culture
  binds people more strongly than the territorial
  adhesives of geography - if all parties are truly
  digital. Like air and drinking water, being
  digital will be noticed only by its absence, not
  its presence
• But the really surprising changes will be
  elsewhere, in our lifestyle and how we
  collectively manage ourselves on this planet
• --Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab

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Why eBVyou?

• There are three kinds of death in this world.
  There's heart death, there's brain death, and
  there's being off the network.
• -- Guy Almes
• Chief Engineer, Internet 2

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Why BVU first?

• Institutional Mission
• The university prepares students for leadership
  and service in an information-driven, global
  society.
• Careers
• Student competitiveness

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eBVyou goals

• ACCESS and SUSTAINABLE SUPPORT for EVERYONE
• TECHNOLOGY as ENABLER for DISCOVERY
• Transform the TOTAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
  Everywhere, ALL of the Time
• Enhance Community, Collaboration, and Engagement.
• Technology as LEVER for CHANGE.

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Our Story
The Little Engine That Could (Go Wireless)
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Why Wireless?

• Collaborative culture
• Campus visits wired classroom issues
• Technology scanning timing
• Preparing students for the future

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eBVyou Results

• Implementing our wireless mobile computing
  environment has increased
• access
• support
• collaboration
• productivity

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Teaching and Learningin the Wireless Environment

• DISCOVERY rules over talk
• ENHANCES face-to-face contact
• EMPOWERS the learner
• Learning is no longer limited by space and time

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Teaching and Learningin the Wireless Environment

• Increased capacity for immediate feedback
• Emphasis on learning over content
• Computers as construction devices

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Examples Classroom

• Instant Feedback Java Applet
• Wireless Reporting
• Blackboard Course Assessment as Discussion
  Builders
• Cookies Project

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Java Classroom Feedback Tool
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Examples Non-Classroom

• Virtual Office Hours
• Student Union Office Hours
• Art History Slides Quizzes
• Wireless Writing - Peer Editing

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Wireless Distractions

• Instant Messaging
• In-Class Email/Web Browsing
• MP3 Downloads
• Pornography/Sexual Harassment
• General Netiquette

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eBVyou Technical Information

• Planning, Designing and Implementing Behind the
  Scenes

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Network History - 1997

• Network
• Multiple Protocols
• Specialized hardware
• Mix and Match

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Network History - 1998

• All Ethernet
• Reduced Protocols
• Switched and shared
• No segmentation
• Multiple Vendors

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Network Planning

• New Network Vendor Selection
• No one cares more about your network than you do
• Who is the best for you?
• Vision
• Partnerships
• Wireless offerings

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Network Planning/Design

• Fiber Upgrades
• Design of Network
• Tools and Time
• Finding Skeletons

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Network Design
Current Network Design

• Design
• Pros
• Cons

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Network Design

• Geographic academic subnets
• 20 bit wireless subnet mask (4094 hosts)

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Network Design

• Five Additional Servers
• Quadruple E-Mail Capacity
• New Academic Server
• Backup Tape Library
• On-Campus Access Points
• Off-Campus Buildings

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Wireless Network Design

• 145 Access Points
• 3D Placement
• Coverage and AP Range Synchronize
• 13 Remote Buildings
• Point-to-Multipoint

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Wireless Network Design

• Wireless Security
• 40 bit WEP encryption to every endpoint
• Rollout of Centralized RADIUS client
  authentication
• Application encryption

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Wireless Network Design

• Use of four channels
• Each AP connected to switched 100 Mbps wired port
• Management Apps
• HP NNM Support
• Standalone managers
• Client tools
• Policies to keep order

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Future Wireless Design

• 802.11a
• Early 2002
• 54 Mbps
• 12 non-overlapping channels
• Additional APs
• Additional Power
• 802.11e / 802.11i
• VoIP Video
• Security

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Core Financing

• 230,000 for wired network
• 143,000 for wireless network
• 15,000 for electrical, UPSs
• 207,000 for wireless NICs
• Leasing verses buying

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Wired vs. Wireless Costs
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Lessons Learned

• Tie technology plans to mission
• Partnerships are good
• Robust implementation planning
• Extensive wireless site surveys
• Phase your implementation

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For additional information

• eBVyou Website
• http//eBVyou.bvu.edu
• eBVyou planning documents presentation
• http//tltc.bvu.edu/eBVyou
• EDUCAUSE Wireless Listserv
• http//www.educause.edu/ then Net_at_EDU
• Avaya Network Solutions
• http//www.avaya.com

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Thank you!

• Ken Clipperton
• Managing Director of University Information
  Services
• ken_at_bvu.edu