Whats New With UIUCnet Wireless

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Whats New With UIUCnet Wireless
Debbie Fligor Chuck Hayes Mike Smeltzer
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Whats New With Wireless

• UIUCnet Wireless Update
• Guest Accounts
• South Farms Wireless Backbone
• VPN Update
• Public Wireless Access
• Cellular Microcells
• Five Quad Wireless Coverage
• The Quiz

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UIUCnet Wireless Update

• Meru deployment numbers
• Things that have worked
• Things that have surprised us
• On the horizon

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Meru deployment numbers

• 413 Meru APs installed
• 300 existing Cisco APs
• 5 Meru controllers deployed
• Wall-to-wall wireless for Lincoln Hall coming
  soon
• Connectivity here today via Meru

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Things that have worked

• Rapid Meru deployment
• High density Meru coverage
• Foellinger Auditorium
• Lincoln Hall Theater
• Central management of thin APs
• Remote UIUCnet Wireless

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Things that have surprised us

• Meru manufacturing miscue
• Meru controller code updates
• Intel client driver defaults change
• 3945 chip set in Dell laptops
• CITES Help Desk has work-around
• Exponential growth in usage
• 50 in four weeks - DHCP leases

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On the UIUCnet Wireless horizon

• 60 of classrooms by end of 2006
• The Armory and the Illini Union planned for next
  summer
• 2009 for last of campus buildings
• Dependancy on wiring upgrade
• Weatherproof Meru APs?

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Guest Accounts

• New personally sponsored accounts
• Working since October 10th
• Lots of campus input - Thanks!!
• Two simultaneous accounts - 3 Days
• Departmentally sponsored accounts
• New interface - same service
• New collateral
• Lots of accounts - up to 31 days

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South Farms Wireless Backbone

• Two wireless backbone hubs
• Fixed wireless backbone sites
• Portable trailer

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Original Wireless Backbone Hub

• Roof of FAR - Oglesby
• Fiber connection to UIUCnet
• 5 bridges and antennas
• Covers north end of South Farms
• Covers Research Park
• Covers athletic fields
• Connects Aeronomy Field Station

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New Wireless Backbone Hub

• Beef-Sheep Complex
• Fiber connection to UIUCnet
• 96-foot tower
• 4 bridges and antennas
• 1 802.11b/g access point
• Covers south end of South Farms
• Covers Willard Airport

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Wireless Backbone Sites

• Up and working
• SOYFACE
• In Planning
• Willard Airport
• Vet Med Research
• Police Training
• Swine Physiology
• Hort. Research

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Portable trailer and tower

• Tim Mies is The Man
• On-board electrical power
• 30 foot crank-able mast
• Rotor head
• 802.11 b/g access point for local access
• Worked great at Agronomy Day
• Outriggers for stability

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VPN Update

• Nortel VPN Server
• Provides native client support
• Windows and Mac OS X
• L2TP
• Certificate based - deployment details being
  worked out
• Existing Cisco VPN Server
• Will retire in 14 months at earliest
• Migrate when convenient for you

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Public Wireless Access

• WiFi Hot Spot coverage
• Limited locations
• Prototype unveiled this week
• Internal CITES testing underway
• External testing will begin soon
• You will be invited to help test
• Beta sites before January

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Public Wireless Access - 2

• How does it work?
• Different SSID - UIUCpublic
• Simple registration
• Supports 2.5 applications
• Instant Messaging, web browsing and reading email
• Sending email only with VPN or web-based access
  to email server
• Bandwidth choked

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Cellular Microcells

• 9 planned sites
• Verizon contract in final stages
• 1 other carrier interested
• Will improve signal strength
• Will provide additional capacity

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MicrocellSites

• Beckwith Hall
• Snyder - Six Pack
• Assembly Hall
• David Kinley Hall
• Lincoln Ave. Res.
• Illini Union
• Townsend - ISR
• DCL
• Ice Arena

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Five Quad Wireless Coverage?

• Looking ahead
• Funding not yet identified
• Could start in Fall of 2008
• WiFi Mesh and WiMax technologies will be mature
  then (we hope)
• Most WiFi capable devices today do not work well
  in bright sun
• WiFi/cellular phones might

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Five Quad Wireless Coverage - 2

• Exterior AP location challenges
• U of I lampposts
• 24 x 7 power?
• Sides of buildings
• Registered historic building restrictions
• Trees, trees and more trees
• Line of sight is not always easy

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QUIZ

• 1. Would you buy a weather balloon from this
  man?

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QUIZ

• 2.
• How many CITES employees does it take to mount
  an antenna?

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Questions and Discussion