Jason Dear of Long Road Sixth Form College made his forum debut with a comprehensive review of his experiences implementing a new Wi-Fi and BYOD policy at his college.

1. WIFI & BYOD

2. Drivers for new Wifi Network
•Old network was poor quality
•Lack of training and understanding from IT Staff
•Access points just added and added
•Lack of designated computer rooms
•Bring Your Own Device campus wide, not just
one building

3. Which Wifi Solution?
•Standard or Single Channel
•On Premise controller or cloud based
•High density access points required

4. BYOD - Criteria
A solution that required little day to day
involvement with the on boarding and on-going
security of 2000+ devices.

5. Chosen Wifi Solution
•Single channel, fits how the college works and
changes rooms. No need to channel plan.
•Meru MC4200 Controller (upto 500 AP’s)
•Meru AP332i 3 x 3 Access Points

6. Chosen Network Access Control
(NAC) Solution
•Can auto remediate windows devices
•Forescout CounterAct Appliance CT2000/A model
with 2500 concurrent devices
•500 Mobile device license

7. Drivers for new Wifi Network
•Old network was poor quality
•Lack of training and understanding from IT Staff
•Access points just added and added
•Lack of designated computer rooms
•Bring Your Own Device campus wide

8. Drivers for new Wifi Network
•Old network was poor quality
•Lack of training and understanding from IT Staff
•Access points just added and added
•Lack of designated computer rooms
•Bring Your Own Device campus wide

17. WIFI & BYOD