[Server-devel] CCCS HP Access Points

[Josh Totoro]

Hello everyone I am the one of the IT guys in the Chester Community Charter School in Chester PA, we just had 1400 XO's donated to our school!!!  We are currently trying to figure out the best wireless solution, and XS server setup that we should use.  The laptops will be spread across 4 separate buildings, 3 building on the West Campus, and 1 on the East.  We are starting with 1 building to get the program up and running and will expand from there.  Below is the wireless solution we were looking at since it will go well with our current HP procurve switches that we have throughout the school.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.

If any of you are interested here is a clip from the news that was run that night.

http://cbs3.com/video/?id=70018@kyw.dayport.com

Thanks

Josh Totoro
Chester Commuity Charter School
(610) 447-0400 x329
jtotoro at chestercommunitycharter.org
www.chestercommunitycharter.org



-----Original Message-----
From: meta.sj at gmail.com [mailto:meta.sj at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Samuel Klein
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 4:46 PM
To: Josh Totoro; Reuben Caron
Cc: Tiger-Wesley, Reuben; John F. Hedrick
Subject: Re: CCCS HP Access Points

Thanks Josh!

Have you posted any details to the server-devel list?
Reuben Caron, copied here, may be able to give you some feedback on
networking setup.

--SJ


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Josh Totoro
<jtotoro at chestercommunitycharter.org> wrote:
> SJ,
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> Sorry I couldn't get back to you yesterday, I have been trying to fix the
> phones in the C building for the last 2 days.  Now that's all taken care of
> so here are the specs of the system we are looking to order:
>
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> HP ProCurve Radios (Port 210) J9004A - These are the radios.  We will have
> 16 of them to cover the whole building, and to make sure that there are not
> too many XO's connected to a single radio we will enable automatic load
> balancing.  All of the radios will broadcast 1 SSID.  The chassis(info
> below) will control how many XO's connect to each radio and keep them all
> even.
>
>
>
> HP 2610-24 POE - This is the switch that we will connect all the radios to.
> Since it is POE it will also supply them all with power.  There is a fiber
> connection that will go from this switch to the Chassis.
>
>
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> HP 5412ZL - This is the chassis that controls everything, the radios and
> switch will all collapse back to it.  This will have Fiber Gbic modules
> connecting it to the switch that the radios are plugged into.
>
>
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> Everything will be wired with CAT6 cable, and we will put the entire
> wireless network on its own Vlan.  We are planning to then connect the Vlan
> to a XS server, we have a dell that we thought would work well(specs below)
> but after speaking with SJ we thought it may be better to use the little
> black servers that you recommend.  We were just wondering with as many
> laptops as we will be running should we have 1 powerful server, 1 little
> black server(for DHCP etc) with the dell running the backups, or if you have
> something else you would suggest.
>
>
>
> Dell Poweredge1600 1U rack mount server:
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> Dual 2.4ghz Xeons
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> 2gb Ram
>
> 2 - 36gb 10k scsi hd(we were planning to upgrade to at least 500gb total
> space) Currently it is raid 5 but we can change that as well.  I could even
> look into pulling the SCSI card and just adding a 500gb IDE drive if that
> will work better.
>
> Dual NIC's 10/100 I think, they may be 10/100/1000
>
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>
> That's all I know off the top of my head, let me know if you need more info.
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>
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> If you could forward this on to Reuben for his input that would be great.  I
> also copied our Reuben and John so they can follow along and add input as
> needed.
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> Thanks
>
>
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> Josh
>
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