Wireless Intended Use 

The UCDenver Information Technology Services (IT Services)
department provides wireless coverage within this framework.

Provisioning policy - the IT Services department is the sole wireless provider on the UCDenver (AMC and DC) campus.  This policy ensures adequate security, frequency management, and interoperability of the wireless access points (AP).  Our policy is to provision wireless to serve two business drivers: mobility and security.  Mobility creates flexibility.  Security ensures we do not compromise Intellectual Property, HIPAA PHI, and other sensitive university data.

Intended use - wireless is intended as an augmentation of the wired network.  The ITS department sees a fit for wireless devices in places too hard to wire or too hard to reach or too limited in space.  Additionally, wireless provides mobility, but at a sacrifice of performance and reliability.  Wireless is intended for mobile users who do not run high bandwidth or mission critical applications.  Fixed, non-mobile desktops, high bandwidth power users, and mission critical applications should be hosted from the wired network.  It is suggested that outage sensitive applications should be run on the wired network because wireless uses unlicensed radio frequencies (RF) that compete with microwave ovens, cordless phones, baby monitoring systems, scientific devices, other rogue IEEE 802.11 wireless APs, Bluetooth devices, and many other RF emitters.  We encourage users with Bluetooth devices disable them when in locations where wireless is being heavily used.

Standard recommendation - the IT Services department recommends IEEE 802.11A and 802.11G network interface cards (NIC) for connectivity. WPA-2 is the recommended wireless protocol.