The Building A company, MyCo, has rented a two floor office space in a commercial/industrial area measuring 132'x78'. The facility is located in Lake County Illinois. The space is broken up into fixed wall offices and cubicles. The internal structure consists of 15' ceilings, with a suspended ceiling dropping down to 12' leaving a 3' plenum above the suspension system. We have Armstrong Cortega Second Look tiles in an Armstrong Prelude XL Fireguard system. The tiles are wet-formed mineral fiber with an insulation R-factor of 1.6 and an energy absorption of 0.28 watts/sqm. The grid uses a 15/16" T-rail suspended from the support structure at 4' increments. It can support 42lbs in its current configuration per 4' segment after taking into consideration the tile and structure weight. The T-rail is recessed 1/4" into the tile. The cubicles are selected from the Allsteel Concensys system. They are a combination of steel frames, laminate and composite horizontal surfaces and fabric covered vertical surfaces. There are small 2'x2' whiteboards in use throughout the cubical areas. These are aluminum backed board with a laminate coating. There is power in the ceiling area and cable trays containing both copper and fiber cables leading back to the network room on the west side of the building on all two floors. Despite this, new network cables will need to be run for the APs using these trays as there is no copper infrastructure run to the plenum space specifically. There are 12 strands of 50 micron MM fiber terminated in LC panels between floors. The plenum space contains a combination of flexible and non-flexible ductwork as well as a sprinkler system. It is an active plenum so all components installed in this space need to be plenum-rated. Fluorescent tube lighting fixtures are situated in regular patterns throughout the space. Ceiling tiles are replaced with 2'x4' fixtures leveraging electronic ballasts fed with 240vac power. Exterior-facing windows and doors meet energy star requirements for this area. They take advantage of low-e glass, triple pane with argon fills. Interior glass is not filmed, but is tempered per local building code. Interior doors are hollow core with no metal reinforcement. The interior walls are constructed using type-C ½" gypsum board. They are fixed to steel studs 16" on-center. Window and door casings interior to the building are painted steel. Floors are constructed of pre-cast/pre-stressed flexicore concrete panels. The panels are 12" thick. Existing Networking Components There is currently no wireless system in the facility. There is Category 6 network cabling throughout the space, including to the walled and cubed offices. Because of the location of our facility, and our desire to maintain a compliant space, installers must be Systimax certified in installation and maintenance with no less than 6 months of on-the-job experience. The installed system should be warrantied by the manufacturer. In the local jurisdiction, only C-card (lowvoltage) electricians are required, but that does not preclude A-card electricians. Typically, Systimax certified installers do not hold A-cards. Installation of low-voltage cabling does not need to be inside of rigid or EMT conduit within the plenum, as long as the materials used are plenum rated. The current wiring utilizes plenum-rated materials and runs through cable trays located in the plenum space. These are shown on the reference drawings. Networking equipment currently in place includes the following: • ISP provided 10GigE connection (5Gbps limited circuit) • Cisco ISR 1001-X edge router located in the network closet on the 1st floor (1GigE and 10GigE support only) • Cisco ASA 5555-X firewall • 4x D-link DES-3100-28F 24-port 10/100 switches per closet (no PoE support) For details on the current connectivity, please see the logical network drawing attached to the specification. Functional Requirements The staff require wireless service throughout the building, but special care must be taken to cover the meeting and break rooms as these are concentrated areas of mobile users. The staff request no less than 802.11ac wave 2 infrastructure be installed. Many users will likely give up their wired connections and leverage the convenience of the new wireless network, so planning for capacity and density over simply coverage would be advantageous. You will have to carefully balance the coverage and AP density dynamics. There are currently 185 users within the space at any given time. We expect this to grow to roughly 250 users within three years. Each user can be assumed to have 2.2 devices, a mix of corporate and BYOD (e.g. company-issued laptop, personal phone and many will have another device). Security Security is of special concern and MyCo is willing to undertake any reasonable security stance recommended ensuring both privacy and reliability of their wireless network. This will be a mixed network, not only MyCo employees should be allowed onto the wireless network, visitors and guest will need access as well. Guests will only need access to the outside world and any public-facing services provided by MyCo. Employees should be treated as trusted entities and have access to internal resources.There are currently 9 internal departments for employees. Corporate-owned devices run windows 10 at this time. BYOD systems vary greatly, but generally include windows, macs, iOS, Android and ChromeOS devices. Segmentation using VLANs is advised. The following two IP spaces can be used for such segmentation and can be sub-divided in any useful way you see fit: • 172.18.128.0/17 - for guests • 172.18.0.0/17 - for employees VLAN ranges that can be used for the segmentation are as follows: 2018-2218. MyCo currently uses AD for user management. We do not operate a RADIUS server at this time, but want to ensure that any authentication system used leverages our current AD infrastructure.

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