Businesses are increasingly feeling the need to re-architect their enterprise networks in order to accommodate the rapidly growing demand for wireless connectivity. With mobility becoming central to operations in many businesses, a proper wireless network is an absolute necessity.
With an enterprise wireless network, enterprise typically get the following advantages over a traditional wireless network:
- Better collaboration capabilities. Your users can move from room to room without losing access to applications and files that require a persistent network connection.
- Centralized management. Administrators can configure and manage the network from a centralized location as opposed to doing the same tasks on each AP.
- Better compliance capabilities. It usually comes with security features and settings designed for meeting regulatory compliance and security policy requirements.
- Better end user experience. All network-based processes will be faster, clearer, and less susceptible to disruptions.
We’ve collected the top requirements that every enterprise grade wireless network should meet.
Cloud Based Controller
Network admin should be able to easily deploy, operate, and manage every access point within the network. Doing so should allow for one framework that offers organizations the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment and management that they’d expect from wired networks.
Easy Management of Central or Remote APs
Network admin should be able to easily deploy, operate, and manage every access point within the network. Doing so should allow for one framework that offers organizations the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment and management that they’d expect from wired networks.
Security
Wireless network security is a major concern in the enterprise, especially for those businesses covered by data privacy and security legislations. Many wireless products support secure layer 3 mobility by letting clients roam across subnets without session disruption.
Scalability for Business Growth
With the ability to deploy multiple access points comes a greater capability to scale your Wi-Fi network as your business grows. Once put in place, this modular approach makes as-needed expansion relatively easy.
Guest Wi-Fi
Enterprise Wi-Fi should allow you to create guest user accounts. Guest accounts can be firewalled from the rest of the network, enhancing your security since these users won’t be able to gain access to sensitive data.
Radio Resource Management
WLAN Controllers are usually able to assign channels to access points statically and dynamically in response to co-channel and RF interference. Controllers may also be able to adjust transmit power to reduce interference when an access point goes down, reduce the impact of channel changes on real-time applications.
Firewall and VLAN
Wireless controllers are able to enforce centrally defined policies related to traffic inspection and segmentation. Other capabilities could include SSID or RADIUS based VLAN tag assignment, role based traffic inspection, and traffic reporting.
QoS (Quality of Service)
Today’s businesses make extensive use of VoIP technologies and video conferencing software like Teams, zoom, Skype or Webex in order to allow geographically separated colleagues and business partners to collaborate, discuss, plan, present, or troubleshoot. All these activities require crystal clear video and, more importantly, audio. Therefore, you’ll have to make sure your enterprise wireless network readily supports QoS (Quality of Service).
Ajna offers a fully cloud managed experience for offices and enterprises, allowing customers to use a mobile app and control everything about their Wi-Fi experience. Udaya series of products are all managed centrally from a public cloud including configuration, monitoring, captive portals, SMS sign-on, payment gateway interfaces and analytics. Taking serious security measures to put any apprehensions customers may have at ease, the company used its deep expertise gained from working with its telecom customers over the years and applied it to improve security and QoS.