Publisher's Synopsis
Successful wireless LAN implementations provide many benefits to enterprises that deploy them to reach mobile workers. This success requires more than understanding of the IEEE 802.11 standard. Implementing Successful Wireless LANs provides a comprehensive approach that is easy to understand. It lays out a wireless project beginning with the business aspects of calculating a return on investment to get started as well as managing and maintaining network availability to mobile workers once the access points have been installed.
The author's front line experience in designing and managing wireless local area networks makes this valuable resource for:
- Understanding radio frequency fundamentals
- Being able to understand differing wireless coverage and usage models for vendors of standards based access points
- Providing a methodology and report template for doing a wireless site survey that can be used as a guideline for third party services
- Providing a best practices recommendation for wireless security
- Defining device management and providing best practices recommendation
- Delivering a return on investment use scenario that encompasses many of the issues needed to get your project approved
- Providing a view of the next step of wireless technology
