Abstract

ACU recently undertook a redesign of their wireless network with the aim of providing an easy a secure wireless network for students and staff, whilst retaining security and simplicity. As more and more staff purchased and were provided laptops, the strain on supporting the wireless network and configuring client devices. The student wireless LAN had been in production for more than 4 years, and during its first implementation, security was based merely on VPN tunnelling. This method was the easiest and quickest way to implement a wireless network when first implemented, however as went by, sophisticated security standard have emerged and wireless security can be achieved by configuring the wireless LAN itself.

Since modern day computer Oses already included support of secure networks, it was decided to upgrade the existing wireless network to a new network that moved the security of the connection to the AP, rather than relying on the enduser's laptop.

Bio

Wil is the Manager of the IT Infrastructure Services Group at ACU. His department is responsible for the management, operation  and development of the University's IT Infrastructure that includes networking, telecommunications, security and server systems.

Wil has been with the University since 1993 and since then has been overseen many of the IT Infrastructure changes in the University that include the adoption of IP Telephony, Lotus Notes and now the adoption of convergent Microsoft  technologies that include Sharepoint, ILM and Exchange 2007.