There’s been a lot of good discussion within the Wi-Fi community recently about the viability of radio resource management (RRM), or the automatic selection of channels and Tx power settings by proprietary vendor algorithms. At Mobility Field Day 1 there was this excellent roundtable. Personally, I usually fall into the static design camp, for many of theContinue reading “Making RRM Work”
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Why K12 Schools Need Wi-Fi Design
Enterprise Wi-Fi is expensive, very expensive. For schools with limited budgets and a responsibility to be good stewards of tax dollars, it is important to get it right, without spending more than necessary on the initial deployment, ongoing support, or fixing costly mistakes. Any savings can be used in other ways to improve education, so unnecessaryContinue reading “Why K12 Schools Need Wi-Fi Design”
Layer 7 Firewalls and QoS on the WLAN
Several WLAN vendors offer layer 7, or application layer, firewalls and quality of service tools. The feature has different names depending on the vendor (Application Visibility and Control, Layer 7 Visibility, AppRF, etc.), but they all try to do the same thing. These tools work at the application layer to identify packets for processing through firewallContinue reading “Layer 7 Firewalls and QoS on the WLAN”
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