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File this under “How did my job bring me here.” While evaluating a wireless LAN solution for the school board we shortlisted two vendors, one selling Aruba, one selling Meru (More on this in a later post). Little did I know that the Air Canada Centre had recently switched from a Cisco based solution to an Aruba system to support laptop and POS devices. So there I am, standing in the lobby of the Air Canada Centre on a “site visit”. Talking with the IT staff of the ACC in the lower bowl the topic of placement of AP’s comes up, especially above/below ceiling placement. As our installs will likely be above ceiling we asked if there were any locations with a similar placement. Well, wouldn’t you know it, the locker rooms are the only locations where the AP’s are hidden. Now I don’t know what information we expected to glean from standing in the Leafs and Raptors dressing rooms looking at the ceiling where the access points were hidden but it sure was a cool feeling being in there! The best part IMHO was seeing the Raptors video editing suite where they slice, dice and tag each game so that the team staff and players can instantly bring up video clips of any player or play…cool.
Keywords: Education, educational technology, management, technology