Re: Wireless Guest Access

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

 Tom Siu ventured to comment, at 10/24/06 4:57 PM:
> Our entire wireless implementation is a guest network.
>
> We have a mission to support the local community, therefore anybody can
> use our wireless network if they are in range, and it covers
> the local "University Circle" area, and many open areas between campus
> buildings (we are an urban campus).
>
> The architecture is a private IP space which terminates outside our
> network, and internal users get increased throughput.
>
> There is currently no SSID (prevents AP phishing), and we hope to
> implement WPA2, and have a guest login for guest users downstream, and
> Case users will use their network IDs.

Hi, Tom,
Sounds pretty good to me (I'm a default-allow kind of guy) but the only
concern I have with this setup would be CALEA. How do you folks view this
requirement with your wireless roll-out?

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