Overview of Wireless Network

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Overview of Wireless Network

• Steven Fetcie
• Infrastructure Manager
• Information Services

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• SUNY Canton is one of eight Technology
• Colleges in the 64 campus State University
• of New York system

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• History
• First began to experiment with wireless
• LANs in the summer of 1999. A small
• pilot test was conducted during the spring of
  2000
• with Electrical Engineering Technology students
• First production units installed in
• support of student laptop program
• during the summer of 2001 utilizing
• Cabletron (now Enterasys) Roamabout
• AP 2000 802.11b Access Points

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• Initial areas covered included
• Electrical Engineering Technology Labs and
  Offices
• Library
• JTs Café (Faculty Office Building Lobby)

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• No encryption
• MAC Authentication using back end
• RADIUS server ( Livingston RADIUS
• running on Linux)
• Students registered their MAC addresses by
• filling out a registration form

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• Next major expansion came during the summer of
  2002
• when a decision was made to install wireless
  coverage in
• all Residence Halls.
• Prior to this project, access in Residence Halls
  was limited
• to 22 dial up lines via Intel Shiva remote access
  servers.
• As more students began to bring PCs to college,
  demand
• for dial up access grew from less than 50 users
  to over 300
• out of approximately 800 residents

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• Separate WAN connection set up to support
• Residence Halls (1 T1 initially, later 3 T1s)
• Same MAC registration process

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• Lessons learned from Res Hall rollout
• Manual Registration did not scale well
• needed to investigate automated process
• Tremendous ramp up in Help Desk calls related to
  installing wireless cards.
• Initial computer registration was approximately
  300 devices (Fall 2002)
• Over the years of wireless access, grew to
  approx 600

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• Added an automated registration process
• during the summer of 2005 (Netreg) to
• support all wireless users on campus
• Wireless access was discontinued May
• 2006 after Time Warner Roadrunner
• Installation project during winter break 05/06

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• Expansion on other areas of Campus
• Wireless was added as part of construction
• projects 2002-2005
• New Construction
• Miller Campus Center
• Newell Veterinary Science Building
• Renovation project
• Wicks Hall
• Old Campus Center

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• Todays coverage
• 40 APs installed, 16 awaiting installation
• Library full coverage
• Wicks Hall full coverage
• Cheney Dining Hall full coverage
• All large lecture halls
• Nevaldine Eng Tech Center
• North full coverage
• South partial coverage
• Newell Vet Science Building full coverage
• Cook Hall partial coverage
• Payson Hall partial coverage
• Dana Hall ( Athletics) partial coverage
• Miller Campus Center ( full coverage including
  Kingston Theater)
• Residence Halls center area ( offices, game
  room, lounge)

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• Equipment Overview

Roamabout AP 2000 Roamabout R2 Proprietary
remote power injector No 802.3af Power over
Ethernet support All end of life / End of
service
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• Management
• Roamabout Manager
• Fall 2006 implemented Bradford Networks
• Campus Manager

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Enterasys Roamabout Manager
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Client list of Access Point
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Link Test with Client Device
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• All users of the campus wireless network must
  register their PCs and allow a security policy
  check.

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• What is checked?
• Are you a valid user
• What operating system do you have
• (Windows 98 and ME are not allowed)
• What level of OS Service Pack is installed
• Do you have an Anti-Virus program installed and
  is it current
• Automatic Updates enabled

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• Network login page

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• Enter in the username and password of your
• Campus network account and type of system

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• You will see the application in action as it
  checks your system

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• PC has passed policy check

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Questions?