I've been asked by my IT director to provide a price on providing seamless wifi in our student residences instead of having multiple setups (think your home ISP setup in each of the 274 rooms).
Because of only one cat5 cable in each room I'm looking at in-wall access points in the rooms from extreme networks (we use their ap's in the rest of campus) which also has 4 ports in the bottom for wired devices.
The solution has private pre-shared keys which allows each person to have their unique network space isolated from others. Their ap's also connect to extremes cloud IQ that gives pretty detailed ai and insight into device/system performance.
Incoming network is not an issue.. we have multiple 10 GB connections and also sit on an educational computing network with a lot of CDN peering..Microsoft, google, facebook.
The cost of the setup plus ongoing license is 1/4 of our current bill.
Oh, i'm the sole network guy at a university of about 2500 students...
I may get an additional helpdesk staff member to help with the support calls..
Am I nuts???
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