Wireless Deployment Plan

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Wireless Deployment Plan

• ITU Semiannual Projects Briefing March 10, 2004
• Derek Kan (dkan_at_gmu.edu)
• ITU Network Engineering Operations

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Summary

• Current Deployment Updates
• Deployment Road Map for 2004
• System Enhancements
• Security Gateway Upgrade
• Wireless Access Point Management
• 802.11g Support

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Current Deployment Updates

• The Johnson Center
• Coverage for most areas
• Arlington 1 School of Law
• School of Law Areas

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Most areas in the Johnson Center
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Most areas in Arlington 1
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Deployment Road Map for 2004

• Focus initially on creating wireless hot spots
  in areas that are natural gathering places for
  students
• As time and budget permits we will continue to
  improve overall coverage in key buildings such as
  Innovation Hall

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Fenwick Library 12/04
Other Deployment
Arlington School of Law 3/04
Bull Run Hall (PW 3a) 9/04
Potomac Heights 10/04
Innovation Hall 9/03
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System Enhancements

• Security Gateway Upgrade
• Wireless Access Point Management
• 802.11g Support

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Security Gateway Software Upgrade

• A major software upgrade to the Vernier System
• Centralize control for the entire system
• Enhanced user management
• Per user up and down stream bandwidth limits
• Enhanced system logging options
• Report Server

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Wireless Access Point Management

• Projected number of Access Points by the end of
  2004 would be over 120.
• NETs Advanced Network Technologies is evaluating
  several wireless management products.
• With the management platform, APs can be managed
  and monitored for performance and reporting.

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Guest ID Accounts

• NETs Advanced Network Technologies is developing
  a RADIUS solution to handle Guest ID accounts
  management.
• The goal is to provide a web base portal for the
  ITU Support Center to manage Guest ID accounts.

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802.11g Support

• The Cisco access points can be upgraded to the
  latest standard, 802.11g, as the marketplace
  matures mixing 802.11g and 802.11b support
  degrades performance and causes interoperability
  problems so we dont want to move to the new
  standard until we can be reasonably sure that
  most of our users have hardware that can handle
  it.
• All 802.11g wireless network cards support
  802.11b access points

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More Information on Wireless Networking

• Wireless Networking Policy is located at
• http//www.gmu.edu/facstaff/policy/newpolicy/1302g
  en.html
• VPN client for Windows 2000 and XP at
• http//itusupport.gmu.edu/downloads/index.asp
• More information is being developed.

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Questions?wireless_at_gmu.edu