Re: [Rockies-Edu] iPads and bandwidth
Re: [Rockies-Edu] iPads and bandwidth
- Subject: Re: [Rockies-Edu] iPads and bandwidth
- From: Bart Kunz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:04:49 -0600
- Thread-topic: [Rockies-Edu] iPads and bandwidth
We have around 400 ipads on our network and only 18Mbps for our district.
We manage it by blocking access to the iTunes store and to servers that
ipad updates come from. Here's the list we use for blocking.
*.phobos.apple.com/* <http://phobos.apple.com/*>
*.appldnld.apple.com/* <http://appldnld.apple.com/*>
appldnld.apple.com/* <http://appldnld.apple.com/*>
appldnld.apple.com.akadns.net
*.appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/*
itunes.apple.com
We can usually leave it open but with the IOS 6 update out and every iPad
thinking its ok to download it, we have to block it until we get each one
updated.
What we need is the ability to point IOS Devices to a local source for
updates, just like we do for computers (not a caching server, that doesn't
work in an education environment where you need to track source IP).
Here's my "ideal" scenarioŠand I know we are in infancy of this and also
hope that one day we will have this in place to manage the devices.
1. Open an iPad up out of the box and get it on the network with a name.
2. Associate that iPad (via wireless) to some sort of MDM Solution
(similar to Filewave for Macs. This is the best I've seen)
3. Using this association and from an interface at a computer you
determine which apps to push out to that iPad. You should be able to
remove apps from the iPad. We do not want to touch the iPad to click Okay
or to authenticate or anything else.
4. The iPad points to a local server where IOS updates are available.
From the MDM Solution you can determine which iPads get the update and
when.
5. Each iPad has 2 accounts on it. One account is for the MDM solution
and apps. It is the account MDM uses to supply apps. The other account
is a "personal" account (which could be disabled), allowing the user to
purchase and download their own apps from iTunes.
Let's all keep pushing for this. Thanks to the support from our Apple
Engineers for helping us with this.
Bart
On 10/4/12 9:13 AM, "Blair Anderson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>We gave each freshman (315) an iPad3 this school year for them to use.
>This increased the total number of iPads in our district to 750. To
>help with the additional devices and app traffic, we increased our
>bandwidth from 30Mbps to 100Mbps (AT&T OPT-E-MAN service) but are finding
>out that is not enough to support the iPads and roughly 3,500 other
>devices on our network. We are averaging 17.2GB of Internet traffic to
>apple.com and use roughly 49GB of bandwidth every day (not including
>email traffic).
>
>Two questions for the list:
>1) Is every district seeing this much traffic going to apple.com
>with iPads?
>2) How much bandwidth do you have in place to support the iPads?
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>Blair Anderson
>Technology Manager
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