Hello
I was wondering how you do design this scenario of students with their own laptops and tablets and stuff
Now we got many University and schools which has no budget for BYOD
Now without that what you can do?
Now i have been thinking in using the captive portal for this scenario.
This give you a few good things
1-You will be able to know witht he name of the student the ip address and all that information which will help you to troubleshoot
2-You will be able to see if someone is doing something he or she doesnt with a name
3-You will be able to see if someone is using a lot of BW(in some school they wont let you traffic shape for some reason the stufends...) you will know who is the user which is doing that.
4-You can put advertisements of related school things on the captive portal webpage... not as good like with the clearpass but its something... they just need to create differente wallpapers with differents advertisements or activities....
5-The time you put it of that users to exist depends is when you finish the school, after you finish the school your user will be deleted automatically.
And well that kind of things
Drawbacks
1-You need to register all the students manually.(no selft registration like with the clear pass?
2-As the guest is open all the smarphones willl connect automatically but i guess i can put it wpa2 psk so that does not happen... Users will need to know the wpapsk pass and also will need to have their user and pass...
This is just an idea... not perfect but oh well...
Anyone got better ideas?
As i feel that putting wpa2 psk for students its not good..... a 802.1x scenario will be really difficult...
Anyways how you deploy students or university for this kind of things? i mean before BYOD?
Take in mind that Mobile users on our school for example could be 1000 users or less normally i know that in the US could be a WAY more
Cheers
Carlos