Infrastructure Issues

On Monday we moved Percy Building and Merz Court onto the new wireless Infrastructure. Unfortunately, some users reported problems connecting in Merz Court and so we reverted the changes in that building, restoring the previous Cisco wireless service.

With investigations into an ongoing wireless issue in Science Central Core Building, we suspended all further WiFi migrations until we could establish the underlying cause(s) of these issues.

Subsequent investigations have identified a common root cause for both Science Central Core Building and Merz Court issues. A software upgrade has been applied to one wireless controller and successfully tested using test access points in both locations.

We will migrate Downing Plaza (NUBS) to the upgraded wireless controller w/c March 2nd, and we will closely monitor to ensure no further issues.

The remaining wireless controllers will be upgraded w/c March 9th, and the final 6 campus buildings from this phase will be migrated before the end of March 2015.

We will migrate the remaining halls of residence onto the new wireless controllers during summer 2015.

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