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Re: Student Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hunter Fuller)
Fri May 13 14:11:52 2016
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 13:11:27 -0500
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From: Hunter Fuller <hf0002@uah.edu>
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I'm not sure what you're asking ... are they not going to be connected
to your campus network?
Are you looking for fiber outlay cost, or cost of contracting out with
an ISP, ...?
Or a way to quantify the cost of adding a building to your network?
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Hunter Fuller
Network Engineer
VBRH Annex B-1
+1 256 824 5331
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Systems and Infrastructure
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Rocha, Kevin <Kevin.Rocha@untsystem.edu> wrote:
> Sorry I should clarify. I'm just looking for the cost of the monthly
> service not the hardware. That is being covered by another fund.
>
> Thanks...
>
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> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:26 AM -0700, "Swenson, Chris"
> <cswenson@curry.edu> wrote:
>
> While I cannot give you an answer to your question I can give you a bunch of
> caveats.
>
> We built a residence all for 170 students 2 years ago. Here in New England
> we have to build stuff so it holds up to something like a 8.2 Richter or so
> earthquake. (I am not a construction guy)
>
> The cost on the wireless is staggering in the opinion of this 58 year old
> guy. This was the first building we built where the wireless was part of
> the original project, all others were additions to older buildings.
>
> The additions to the older buildings were part of my tech department costs,
> when the facilities people saw the first cost of the wireless in new
> construction their jaws hit the floor. They were not prepared for the cost
> of the modern AP.
>
> Because of the thick walls we ended up with something like 72 access points
> (Aruba AP-205’s) for every 4 or so students. The others covered common
> areas.
>
> I am also finding that I have to revisit my wireless in buildings upgraded
> as recently as 3 or 4 years ago because of inadequate signal penetration as
> we move from the 2.4 g to 5.0 g bands.
>
> Another thing we decided to do was drop adding phone service to every room.
> Finally you will want to get guarantees from the wireless vendor that the
> system works. Students who have to use their data plans for the smart phones
> are very unhappy campers. Beat up the architect for a decent set of CAD
> drawings that you can submit to the wireless vendor. For some reason they
> are reluctant to give that stuff up in my dealings.
>
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> Lastly we currently promise 1 port per pillow. Quite honestly 95 % of some
> very expensive switches are sitting idle. I do not know what the answer is
> on this.
>
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>
> Chris Swenson
>
> Network Manager
>
> Curry College
>
> Milton Massachusetts.
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> From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Rocha,
> Kevin
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 12:58 PM
> To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Student Internet
>
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>
> Hello Folks,
>
> We are building a residence hall here at UNTD and are having trouble getting
> a decent quote for budgetary estimate purposes for cost per student for
> Internet access. This hall will have 125 residents. Has anyone done a
> similar cost analysis recently for a similar setup.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kevin Rocha
> IT Manager
> University of North Texas at Dallas
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