This California State university is set in an urban area, with a 300 acre campus and over 100 buildings. Its student population approaches 30,000 and has a choice of 150 undergraduate degree and 60 masters programs. Situation T o cover such a vast area, this campus network comprised thousands of access points and associated infrastructure. And like many other university campus networks it faced unique scalability challenges due to the high number of devices and the use of bandwidth intensive applications including video and gaming. Students carry 2 to 4 devices, sometimes all connecting to the wireless LAN simultaneously . Challenge The Wi-Fi at this California State university was below par and everyone knew it. Administrators feared this put the student experience and reputa

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