Wireless at ASU campus

[Paul W. Frields]

Hi FUDCon planners -- responding to a question Robyn posed for me, and
I wanted the whole group to have this information.

Qwest, the contract provider for ASU's internet, has confirmed for us
some time ago (back in July) that they are happy to provide broadband
at the Brickyard and MemU, for free (since it's a temporary and
short-lived change).

I'm forwarding the email chain below for your reference.  Steve Ford
is the Qwest contact, but we've also conversed with Lincoln Slade who
works IT on the ASU side.  He should be in the loop regarding internet
connectivity at the school.

Paul

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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:37:31 -0500
From: Ford, Steve
To: Lincoln Slade
CC: Jon Delany, Yann-Hang Lee, Duane Woerman, Robyn
	Bergeron, Paul Frields
Subject: RE: Fedora Linux Conference that may require specialized wireless network setup

Lincoln,

We can accomodate your requirements. We will install additional access
points as needed to support the connections and bandwidth
requirements. We will configure a non-broadcast SSID for the
conference that will utilize a separate Vlan. We will plan to use
a/b/g radios for the access points but if we have surpless a/b/g/n
radio access points we will install these. You will have full access
to the Internet.

As this is to support the conference and is temporary there will be no
cost. Access points will be removed following the conference.

I suggest that you open a CRM request case approximately 2 weeks prior
to the event. We will assign a technician to work with you on
installation and configuration.

Thanks and if you have any questions please let me know.

Thank You,
Steve Ford
Lead IT Network Engineer
ASU Netcom Managed Services - Qwest Team

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From: Lincoln Slade
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:59 AM
To: Ford, Steve; Robyn Bergeron; Paul Frields
Cc: Jon Delany; Yann-Hang Lee; Duane Woerman
Subject: Fedora Linux Conference that may require specialized wireless network setup

Steve,

It was good talking with you last week. As discussed we have an
conference that our School and the University may Host.

The expected dates of the conference are Jan 29th - 31st of 2011. We
will be looking at hosting this event in both Brickyard Artisan Court
building and within the Memorial Union on the Tempe Campus.

There are three major concerns/requests that we have:

1.  Given the nature of the conference we would like to request that
the Wireless access points be put on a Separate Vlan as a precaution
given the folks at this conference will be very technically Savvy. The
ports that need to be open to the internet are: HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, and
(possibly several Source Code Management ports that we will name at a
later time).

2.  We are also concerned about the workload of these access point as
there may be between 100-130 laptops accessing the Web downloading
large amounts of data simultaneously. In the past this amount of
traffic as overwhelmed standard network setups at previous
conferences.

3.  If there is a special Temporary wireless network setup for this
event, is their going to be a cost associated with such a setup and
operation? If so can you provide us with an estimated cost?

I have included Paul Fields and Robyn Bergeron as they are planning
the event that is to be held here at ASU. If you have any additional
Technical questions please include them as they may have more
information than I do about their Technical needs.

It would be appreciated if we can get a response sometime this week as
Robyn and Paul have some deadlines approaching regarding the planning
of the event and need to know if the Technical aspects of the event
can be accommodated.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,
Lincoln


Lincoln J. Slade
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Technology Support, Coordinator
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
699 S. Mill Avenue #578
Tempe, Az 85281

-- 
Paul