http://www.wlanpros.com/videos/jason-hintersteiner-challenges-of-low-end-enterprise-market/
The key messages from this talk are as follows:
- Most non-residential networks are in the low-end enterprise market (small and medium businesses) - this is a segment that is growing tremendously but is largely ignored by WLAN professionals
- Most enterprise solutions are not geared towards this segment - both too expensive and too complex
- Many of the challenges in the low-end enterprise market are similar to larger enterprises
- The tools used to deploy Wi-Fi in the low-end enterprise are more limited:
- Generally no site surveys except sometimes for predictive models
- Site walk-throughs are generally only concerned with where you can run cables
- Packet analysis never happens
- Most Wi-Fi problems come down to the four degrees of freedom
- Number and placement of APs
- Antenna
- Channel
- Power
- You are designing for tomorrow, not today: the infrastructure stays static while the expectation for the number of devices and the amount of data per device is increasing exponentially
- BYOD and IoT: 2.4 GHz will unfortunately be with us for a long time
- Cabling infrastructure is key
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