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Bull and Bear Debate: Enterprise Wireless LANs - Are the advantages worth the risks? |
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Written by Alan J Weissberger
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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Cisco continues to aggressively push its Unified Wireless Network for enterprises. This was their main message at the June 26th IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, CA. While probably 70% to 90% of enterprises have some WiFi, less than 10% have pervasive access everywhere within their building or campus. Cisco would like to greatly increase Enterprise WiFi penetration by offering features like: enhanced security, location and tracking services, and secure guest access. But others see problems with company wide WiFi and wonder if the benefits are worth the risks- financial, security, scalability, availability. In an article entitled, "Helpless, Hopeless, Wireless," the June 26, 2007 Wall Street Journal (again) takes a pessimistic view of this technology stating that, "in many offices, Wi-Fi has been a headache." The Aberdeen Group weighs in with a recent research report that endeavors to measure enterprise WiFi value proposition to companies. We delve deeper into the pros and cons of Enterprise WiFi networks in this article.
The complete article, published on July 0, 2007, may be found at:
http://www.viodi.tv/2007/07/09/wireless/
Please contact the author (
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or 408 260-2657) if you have any questions or issues on wireless or wireline networking.
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