University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Wireless Upgrade

Campus Wireless Upgrade, October 2021 Progress Report

The Wireless Network Upgrade Project officially ended June 30th, 2021 and any remaining deployments are to be considered part of regular operations. There are 22 buildings remaining in various stages of readiness: 1 waiting on construction 5 reviewing switches 3 ready to prepare access points 13 ready to schedule We are focusing our attention on …

Campus Wireless Upgrade, May 2021 Progress Report

May was a major push for AP deployments, switch review and building cutovers. 1281 AP’s were deployed or cutover during this month, with new deployments at 8 buildings. The infrastructure team has completed all wiring for buildings and Westphal is going to do AP deployment at Memorial Library, while the Field Services team continues to …

Campus Wireless Upgrade, Apr 2021 Progress Report

April was another productive month for this project. The infrastructure team is finishing up the final building (Memorial Library) and is targeted to be completed early this month, which will conclude the infrastructure involvement of this project. That will leave the AP installations for Field Services as the remaining items as we move towards the …

Campus Wireless Upgrade, Mar 2021 Progress Report

The month of March saw the Field Services team deploy 625 AP’s at 9 buildings. Alongside the AP deployments, the Field Services team has continued to fully cut-over buildings, which is the final step after AP’s are deployed. The infrastructure team remains on track for finishing the final buildings (Whimer, Microbial, Memorial, Ingraham) by the …

Campus Wireless Upgrade, Feb 2021 Progress Report

The month of February saw 1248 AP’s deployed at 16 buildings. AP unboxing and configuration was completed in February by the Field Services team and they are now working on deployments as well as patching and cut overs of buildings with all AP’s installed. Field Services is also assisting with the switch review and count …

Campus wireless upgrade, Dec 2020 progress report

Another month of great progress for AP deployments. Despite the short month with holiday outages, December was a continuation of the strong November with the Field Service team working on AP unboxings and configurations and Westphal doing new AP deployments. The teams were able to deploy 968 new AP’s in 14 buildings. New AP’s and …

Campus wireless upgrade, Nov 2020 progress report

We have continued a concentrated push for AP deployments this month, with Westphal leading the deployment of new AP’s and the Field Services team doing the unboxing and configuring of the new AP’s. We had a month of great progress of AP deployment with this division of labor, deploying new AP’s in 25 buildings for …

Campus wireless upgrade, Oct 2020 progress report

October was dedicated to AP prep work from Field Services as they prepared for Westphal’s involvement in new AP deployments. All newly ordered AP’s have been delivered and Field Services continues to work on unboxing and preparing those AP’s for Westphal, who has begun new AP deployments. Westphal started with a trial deployment at the …

Campus wireless upgrade, Sept 2020 progress report

September was a month largely dedicated to validation of switches and prep for building AP deployment. While it was initially planned that there would be a big push on 3 of the larger buildings, some issues over appropriate power needs at these locations was discovered. The team shifted its focus to two smaller buildings and …