The Economic Benefits of a Cooperative Control Wireless LAN Architecture
The first wave of wireless LANs saw autonomous access points being deployed in
key verticals such as healthcare, retail and manufacturing where there was
overwhelming business advantage to having users and devices connecting to the
network wirelessly. These autonomous (standalone or fat) access points were
relatively simple to deploy but lacked the manageability, mobility, and security
features that enterprises required, even for convenience networks. The lack of
manageability and control increased the operational costs of these wireless LANs.
The time associated with carrying out pre-installation site surveys, AP location
tuning, periodic post-installation surveys and the per-AP configuration and image
updating drove organizations to look for alternative solutions.
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