quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2013

wireless sprawl

no i didnt make a mistake...
welcome to the age of mobility and BYOD and collaboration  for the IT manager its not welcome its a waking nightmare, lets start at the beginning:
in our company we recently had to implement a project that required tablet use so i had to implement the wireless access to those tablets, we had some 4 access points for intermittent use, so i did a site survey measured the wireless aps calculated for 9 tablets the use and did web study and contacted suppliers and did those things that normally CIO does, and decided that for 6 ubnt ap-pros that fit the bill Cisco was toooooo expensive and the ubnts proved to be plug install and forget...
that's when the problems started now we have to provided guest access and the employees demand that wireless access to they're smartphones it took 2 months to pass from 9 tablets to 32 devices and growing by the day..
my advice is beware of wireless sprawl... i accounted only for 10 devices and some intermittent use...
but the ubnts proved to be unbreakable and unshaken and i saw one day 48 devices connected and 30 guests not a problem.
just my two cents...