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The way our teams have always worked is we have the data networking side and then the CORE networking side. The wireless controller has historically been managed by the CORE team. With the new SDN network being created comes a plan where we are all being merged into on official NOC with new roles and…

aka the one I didn’t submit 😉 We currently have over 21,000 students, 6,000 faculty and staff, and 130 buildings across our different campuses. These buildings range from 2 story houses to 15 story towers and everything in between. Just before covid lockdown, a new network plan outlining a switch from Aruba wireless & Cisco…

We have over 130 buildings across our campuses. A lot of them have never had their wireless design assessed and updated (yet haha). A few weeks ago, someone reached out from a building we had never received a complaint from and I was very surprised at what I found. The majority of staff in the…

I know lots of people are probably well aware of these but I figure it may help someone one of these days 🙂 Switch commands may not be the first thing you think of for wireless troubleshooting but they are usually a great first step, depending on the situation. The good old show interface status…

I’ll start off with, this thing is pretty amazing! I know the title calls out the fact that I’ve never had the opportunity to use a wireless sensor before, but I don’t think that’s why it seems so great. The Wyebot device I am testing is part of a vendor agnostic, plug-and-play, overlay sensor platform.…

Not that it was made in Canada but that it is super polite in how it works. I was speaking to a friend of mine who is a network admin. Their wireless person left the company, and they received a ticket from a rural site complaining of their wireless. He told me he had explained…

We have a few hundred comm spaces on our campuses and the majority of those are older, which means bix. Bix/cross connect wire isn’t made for multi gig speeds needed for modern access points. The older building I’ve just finished a redesign for is completely bix in all 6 closets and our newest wiring standard…

We have never had a PSK/Guest network on Campus. There is a slightly broken system that will create temporary guest accounts for our WPA2-Enterprise network for contractors, small events and meetings, but most visiting people are expected to use eduroam. The campus fitness center has a fieldhouse that was built in the late 1970’s and…

One thing we’ve never had on any of our campuses is outdoor wireless. Last year I had the opportunity to make this happen. We chose the upper campus Quad as this is a very well used and high traffic area. There are a number a sitting areas scattered around where students study and staff take…

While visiting my sister and brother in-law, I did what any normal wi-fi person does and opened an app to check out the airspace 😊. My brother in-law has always had creative names for his personal and guest networks but this time I noticed a new SSID called blackhole. He had also been having some…