Re: [Ietf-62] Conference net status.

[Albert Vezza <[e-mail]>]

Dennis,

Thanks for the update.  Things are looking like they are coming along.

Al

At 17:48 -0600 2/2/05, Dennis Fazio wrote:
>It's been a while since we've communicated on things for the 
>Minneapolis conference, so here are some status details and needs we 
>still have:
>
>Dave Farmer and I have met with the Hilton folks and surveyed the 
>site and we've also met a couple of times to map out the network 
>design. Here is a summary:
>
>1. Hilton facilities.
>
>All of the wiring and infrastructure facilities are still in place 
>and available. There are two network drops in each meeting room, one 
>for the internal Hotel LAN and one for the Hilton Internet service. 
>We will be able to use the wiring for the Hilton Internet service 
>for our purposes during the week, so that gives us two drops in each 
>room. That obviates the need to put a switch in each room to 
>accommodate the wireless data and wired unicast voice nets (I 
>believe there is no multicast video this time).

Great, and as of right now there will be no video.

>We will have access to their telecomm/network hub on the 4th floor 
>to be able to place equipment and patch into their distribution 
>panels for the meeting rooms. Other distribution panels are still 
>available in the coat room, where the registration desk will be.

Good.


>We will also have access to the roof to place wireless equipment. We 
>also surveyed the possibility of placing a base station to cover the 
>28th floor lounge, and that also is available using hotel wiring.

If that can be done great.


>2. Internet access
>
>Onvoy has placed an order for the dark fiber to the Hilton to 
>terminate in their Minneapolis PoP in a gigabit ethernet port. From 
>there, vLANs will be routed to get traffic to their 2-3 upstream 
>backbones, and over a direct link to the University for Internet2 
>cross-connect. Delivery is on schedule for the first couple of days 
>in March.

Ok.

>For a backup link, we would like to put in a wireless broadband link 
>to the University for connection to its upstream national providers. 
>We are seeking equipment from Alcatel, via Chris Liljenstolpe, and 
>from Cisco, via Dave Farmer and the University Cisco rep. We hope to 
>hear within a few days. If that does not pan out, we will have to 
>install one or two T1 links.

Ok


>3. Wired net
>
>The University will supply whatever number of Cisco 3750 
>switch/routers we need to build the wired network. We will terminate 
>the dark fiber and the wireless link in this equipment, one in the 
>basement telecom room, one on the roof. GigE links will be brought 
>down to the 3rd floor and distribution to the meeting rooms and base 
>stations will be done from there. Switches will also be placed in 
>the terminal room to supply the wired drops, printers and handful of 
>supplied laptops there.

Ok

>IPv6 routing will be done with a pair of Cisco 2900 units that the 
>University will also supply, one for the Onvoy dark fiber path, one 
>for the University wireless path.
>
>There should be no need for any additional routers or switches from 
>other sources.
>
>4. Wireless net
>
>We are still in need of about 35 801.11 b/g or a/b/g base stations. 
>This is our estimate to cover all the meeting rooms on both floors, 
>the lobby and bar, the 28th floor lounge and a couple on the roof 
>for outdoors. To do the rooftop units, we will need a couple of 
>hi-gain directional antennas to give us decent signal down on the 
>street and into the bars and restaurants. There is still no word on 
>availability of this equipment yet.

Jim, can you or Chris Eliot and Karen Odonoghue help us or should I 
go begging elsewhere.


>We also need a person to take on the role of project director for 
>the wireless net. We could do it here with University folk, but this 
>is a challenging high-density high-noise network and someone 
>well-steeped in radio magic would be most helpful. Any network 
>management software to monitor and manage the wireless net and 
>expertise to run it is also needed.

Ditto Jim, Chris and Karen.


>5. Servers and printers
>
>I believe the servers are on hand at IETF HQ and ready for 
>deployment. We need to have a project leader for this portion 
>officially identified also to get the web, mail, DHCP, print queues, 
>etc. up and running. I believe Albert is also in the process of 
>acquiring printers.

Scott Blomquist is Foretec's sysadmin and he will be in Minneapolis 
to help Scott Fritchie.  Blomquist (Scott doesn't work in this case) 
will look at the servers next week and do any updating needed before 
we ship the to Minneapolis.

>
>Next steps:
>
>Dave and I will visit the Hilton again next week to get the jacks 
>and building wiring mapped out with their LAN guy and start early 
>planning for switch/router and  base station placement. Dave will do 
>an initial network plan in Visio and send it out (PDFs would be 
>helpful for readibility) when available.

Ok

>We need to identify where the base stations will come from, who will 
>be the wireless net lead, and who will be the server system lead.

I think this is handled with the Scott and Scott


>I am sure I forgot some things, so please chime in. We need to get 
>some chatter going here and details planned out, so off we go.
>
>Albert, is there any information I can gather or put together that 
>would be useful for the attendees during their visit here?


That last is a question for Marcia.  Thanks for all the work.  It looks great.

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