The corporate wireless implementation, with the right resources adoption, allows organizations to enjoy the advantages and benefits
Recently, we present the three ways in which companies usually integrate wireless networks: the improvised, the planned and the corporate. For each of them, we show some pros and cons and the situations in which they are applied. In this post, we focus on showing the main Wireless Corporate model advantages.
It is recognized for presenting features more robust than the others and have some characteristics of its own. These advantages usually help in decision making when a company has to opt for a more efficient wireless network modality.
Meet the Corporate Wireless Top Five benefits
Dynamism – The wireless solution, through Radio Resource Management (RRM), is capable of performing an analysis of the entire surrounding radiofrequency environment and, therefore, performing a self-tuning .
Security – It is compatible with all possible security protocols, such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), WPA (Protected Wireless Access) and 802.1X, for example. And the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) makes it possible to integrate wireless network access to Active Directory (AD) servers and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers.
Scalability – It is possible to configure and deploy platforms with a minimum of 50 access points (so-called Access Points), and expand that number by up to 3,000, with controller models capable of meeting the wireless business connectivity needs of all the segments, whether small, medium or large.
Easy configuration and deployment – It is worth remembering that the focus of Corporate Wireless is on the business functionality, not on the network protocols. In this case, all the access points are integrated to the controller, through the
architecture Split-MAC, generating the distribution of the functionalities of this wireless network modality.
Visibility and Traceability – Applications and protocols used by users are detected automatically and transparently through features such as Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) and NetFlow.
Now that you know a little bit more about the Corporate Wireless benefits, keep in mind that to implement it in a company, you need to have the right and proper resources at hand.
This way, the organization is guaranteed the opportunities that a corporate wireless network can provide in terms of governance, visibility, security and easy adoption.
* Klaus Engelmann is a Nap IT Network Engineer
