Planning is critical to achieving any business objective, and it even influences the technologies choice success to make the business work
Many companies find installing a Wireless network simple, but just installing Access Points is not enough to have quality access to the meeting point the corporate needs. We must go beyond to avoid problems. So if your company is in the implementing or improving the wireless network moment, identifying infrastructure needs is the starting point for getting the right technology choice.
Nowadays, of course, when it comes to doing this first analysis for planning, it is basic to contemplate processes in mobility and performance terms. In addition, to identify the best model to adopt, considering your business rules, you need to evaluate some questions about your company.
4 Basic questions to get right on your wireless network
- What does the wireless network have to deliver to your business?
- What are your company’s operation characteristics?
- What will be this network use?
- What aspects affect the physical environment?
These answers ensure that the chosen infrastructure conforms to the company’s usage profile. Therefore, they allow your company to invest in something targeted, without waste, without future problems and with high performance.
Therefore, it is worth emphasizing the starting importance with a study that encompasses every scenario, map needs and variables. This step allows the ideal solutions identification, guarantees the best result for your operation and determines the Wireless network ideal choice.
What can be adjusted?
These questions are essential for the identification the best wireless network solution phase. Mobility: the trend that consolidates in the Market
New behaviors in the corporate market are demanding new strategies for Wireless integration. One example is mobility, which is increasingly present in corporations. In addition to bringing many advantages, it also brings many challenges: After all, how to support so many mobile devices connected to your network at the same time? How to ensure security for these connections?
Considering the BYOD importance, collaboration technologies (audio and video), and cloud computing that require high download and upload rates, nothing more important than setting proper guidelines on Wi-Fi networks which bring fast access benefits, security and high-performance connection.
Another attention point should be the technology park already installed. How will the various technologies (appliances, servers, routers, Access Points, etc.) talk to each other? Are they compatible with the network structure being created? What should be changed?
By Klaus Engelmann and Gustavo Emerin – Nap IT Network Engineer
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