The school purchases WiFi, and the manufacturers' presentations are all very small."The Yunwon Architecture""AI Smart Scheduler""Full-time no-sense authentication"Listen, high-level, in the real scene of school, many functions are redundant or even unusable. We have been with a few schools and found that being verbically spoken is common. This piece brings to light a few points that are most likely to be irritated and actually not worth reference.
"Support all protocols."Not equal to"Yeah."
The manufacturer's favorite is"We support the LDAP, CAS, OAuth2, Radius."Listen, it's all right, but the real thing about school is"Can we get a full ID?"Many of the so-called support is just a bottom-store solution, with no experience in matching your old system. The list will be selected depending on whether there are co-educational schools and peer certification systems that have been found, and it would be better for the manufacturer to take the test environment of your school. We've seen the vendor say they support a protocol, but we actually find the field to be different and custom-made.
"Cloud architecture"Not for the school network.
There are now many manufacturers who push the bill, certification and billing. For schools, the benefits of clouds are light, with teachers and students getting online data out of the school network, with more assessment; and when the outer web is shaking to the cloud chain, the entire school accreditation is affected. It is clear that privatization can be deployed, and there will be no data on schools. We suggest core certifications and billings are deployed as far as possible in schools, so that certain management functions can be covered at most."Yunwon-kun."Three words were taken with the school ' s network environment demanding data presence.
"Smart Speed"How about that?"Speed limit is good."
Some of the manufacturers talk about AI's smart dispatch bandwidth, which automatically limits speed by application recognition. Listen, it's cool, but what schools really need is a little more than just a little bit of a..."I can set the rules on the scene.": Hostel ceilings, office floors, test week temporary speed lifts. These are more reliable by manual configuration than AI guessing. And applying identification itself is easy to misjudge, and micro-letter videos and web lessons are often confused with it. We suggest that the selection focus on the size of the deployment of the speed limit strategy rather than whether it will be possible."Smart". A system that can make its own rules is more reassuring to the school than a black box AI.
"Long list of functions"It could mean..."I don't need much."
The company's colour pages often list dozens of functions, advertising, behavior analysis, graphic labels, and business circles. Most of the time in school settings is not used. More functionally than good, it means more complex interfaces, higher learning costs, and more problematic points. We suggest that schools should have their own list of items to demonstrate by article, not simply missing them. When they are rated, do not be confused with the length of the list if the required items are met.
"Free promotion"Depends on the service boundary.
The manufacturer used to say,"Free promotion for life"But upgrades and transports are two different things. Who's responding to the system's failure, rules change who's helping you with it. These are the services that schools use every day."Free promotion"The company says it's custom development, and the fee is paid."Free."Two words really.
The choice is taken by the speech, and it is rooted in the need for a list of manufacturers. The school WiFi's Internet billing system should not buy or buy any one. The only criteria are whether you can keep your school's online environment, organizational structure and financial processes steady and running.
Let the factory commercials show you real data.
The demonstration environment is carefully prepared and smooth. To break it, you give the manufacturer real data after disabling: your school's tissue tree, a group of test students, existing billing rules, allowing the manufacturer to import, configure and run. It is only credible that it can be demonstrated in real data structures. We see the vendor's fluid performance in his own environment, with hundreds of school renames stuck, because we have not dealt with different people. Real data are the best test.
Ask your colleagues about the pits they stepped on.
You can have a good speech, and the person you've used has the most say."Is it working?"But..."What's the worst headache of three months on the line?""The billing is not a problem.""The vendor's responding fast."And these real feedbacks, which are more than the case of manufacturers. We suggest that we write a peer interview into an optional process, and even make a few phone calls, to avoid a lot of shopping before finding a pit. The school is close, and the other people's lesson is your lesson.