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”
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K-12 Needs eduroam Too
As eduroam sweeps across higher education in the United States, I think it’s worth considering its place in K-12 as well. After all, every university and college that joins eduroam is within the boundaries of a K-12 school district, and a longstanding relationship is likely to exist between those institutions. Where I work, we have MiamiContinue reading “K-12 Needs eduroam Too”
School 1:1 Program WLAN Design Considerations
The design of a WLAN to accommodate a school’s 1:1 program can make or break the entire enterprise. A poorly designed WLAN presents connectivity issues, bandwidth issues, co-channel contention, and RF utilization problems that distract end-users from classroom activities and results in a loss of trust in the technology. Similarly, clients with substandard Wi-Fi chipsetsContinue reading “School 1:1 Program WLAN Design Considerations”
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