BYOD the driver to high density wireless and the advent of 802.11ac Henry Batten Meru Networks hbatten@merunetworks.com 07904 381 977
Evolution of Campus Wireless Hot Spot Mission Critical Utility Learning Tool Teaching Tool Convenience 4
The trends driving education and Wi-Fi Device BYOD Proliferation There will be over 3 Billion Wi-Fi devices by 2015. Gartner 1:1 School Deployments Parental Contribution Schemes Technology has a vital role to play in closing the attainment gap. Multi-media internet and educator created resources Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Worldwide Collaboration & communication tools E-learning foundation Students expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to. Horizon Report > 2012 Cloud Services Cloud Services Wi-Fi has become mission critical infrastructure in education"
The Wi-Fi Goals. Every Where, For Every One, For Everything, From any device. Mobility 7
Why BYOD relies on the 2.4Ghz spectrum 5GHz devices <25% of 6800 at UoS
BYOD Challenges USER REQUIREMENT Simple, quick connection Simple infrequent authentication Access to appropriate resources Security and Privacy OPERATIONAL ISSUES Users must be uniquely identifiable Credentials must be created and distributed Credentials must be revoke-able Users must be classified Access must be differentiated Guest networks are not encrypted There is no control over devices We don t have the resource to configure or troubleshoot BYOD devices
Connectivity Challenges On boarding Self Help We ll Get to You
802.1X IS THE ANSWER, BUT 802.1x is hard to configure on clients 1. Connect to a network 2. Select your protocol 4. Trust the server certificate (lets hope its installed already) 5. Choose how you send your username 3. Select the EAP type
SMARTCONNECT ONE CLICK CONFIGURATION Access Point 1. Authenticate using web authentication 2. One Click to configure 802.1x 3. Automatically connect with 802.1x Supported Platforms Windows ipad/iphone Apple Mac Android
Customer Expectations
Customer Expectations Not Being Met Insecure or Manual onboarding Dropped sessions Reduced network performance Sticky Clients Domestic devices don t roam More access points do not improve performance No! Site surveys Reactive management IT scale requires human scale Destroyed by density, mobility, density interference,.
Application Challenge On Campus Mobility -dbm [-65dBm Throughput for (Mbps) Smart phones] -40 50-50 45 40-60 35 30-70 25 20 15-80 10 5-90 0 Single Channel vs. Microcell Call Drops 150 300 450 600 Location Microcell Virtualized
Density vs. Capacity Capacity of Campus 7,000 simultaneous users 30,000 unique Wi-Fi devices Capacity of Hall 250 students 1000 devices 500 # Clients 30 50 80 100 250
Connectivity challenges - Very High Density How come I ve got signal, but can t run this video? Lecture Hall Chaos Reduced Learning Distracted Students Unfair Access
Key Takeaways - BYOD BYOD Wi-Fi > 50% of LAN traffic by 2015 Client control Root cause of connectivity, mobility, application issues Wi-Fi WLAN architecture matters There is another choice: IT can regain control
Introducing 802.11ac Phase 1 1. 5Ghz only 2. Backwards compatibility 3. 80Mhz wide channels 4. Higher modulation rates 256QAM Phase 2 1. MU-MIMO 2. 160Mhz wide channels 3. 80+80Mhz wide 4. Increased Spatial streams Uptake??
IEEE 802.11ac Technology to Scale the Wireless Edge Bandwidth # of spatial Streams 20 MHz (Mbps) 11ac (11n) 40 MHz (Mbps) 11ac (11n) 80 MHz (Mbps) 11ac 160 MHz (Mbps) 11ac 1 86.7/(65) 200/(144) 433.3 866.7 2 173.3/(144) 400/(300) 866.7 1733 3 288.9/(216) 600/(450) 1300 2340 4 346.7/(300) 800/(600) 1733 3466 5 433.3 1000 2166 4333 6 577.8 1200 2340 5200 7 606.7 1400 3033 6066.7 8 693.3 1600 3466 6933 Maximum Achievable Data Rates The 20/40 11ac performance gain over11n is due to 256-QAM vs11n 64-QAM. 11ac provides a per-stream data rate of up to 433Mbps (80Mhz) and 866Mbps (160Mhz) vs 144Mbps per-stream in 11n (40Mhz)
802.11ac Reduces the Number of Available Channels (Bonded 80MHz and 160Mhz) 5170 MHz 5330 MHz 5490 MHz DFS Weather radar Not allowed in North America 5730 MHz 5735 MHz Not allowed in Europe 5835 MHz IEEE channel # 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 144 149 153 157 161 165 20 MHz 40 MHz 80 MHz 160 MHz DFS = Dynamic Frequency Selection Available Channels for 11ac Including DFS Excluding DFS Chanel Size US EUROPE US EUROPE 40 MHz 8 9 4 2 80 MHz 4 5 2 1 160 MHz 1 2 80+80 MHz 2 2 1
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