The Business Case for Enterprise Class Wireless LANs

Understand wireless LAN business-case development, solutions, architecture, design, and deployment with this comprehensive guide. The features include: explains the business rationale behind deployment of wireless LANs, including ROI and TCO considerations; includes a clearly written technical overview of wireless LANs for managers, decision makers, business professionals; addresses WLAN deployment best practices with analysis of the business benefits; and extensive case studies illustrate real-world implementations. The evolution of wireless LANs and the subsequent penetration into the enterprise market has moved at a faster rate than expected and is projected to accelerate further in the next couple years. IT executives need reference material that can help them establish a solid business case and form a financially sound implementation plan while appreciating the benefits, as well as the risks, of this technology. “The Business Case for Enterprise-Class Wireless LANs” takes a business approach to wireless networking. It focuses on the strategic and business justifications associated with WLAN deployment and less on the intricacies of the underlying technology. However, a baseline analysis of wireless LAN technologies is included, empowering the reader to understand complex decisions concerning the technology. Most books written on wireless LANs go into great technical detail and do not target the business audience; this book does not cover the technology to that degree and is written for a senior technical or management-level reader. The book provides advice to decision makers on issues they should consider; recommends strategies for dealing with important issues; and provides specific advice, including templates, checklists and flowcharts covering how they should proceed. Throughout the book, reader friendly descriptions, quick reference sheets, diagrams and visual layouts aid to further explain all topics, and sidebar interviews provide authoritative business perspectives. David Castaneda is an infrastructure architect in the Information Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He is the architect and technical lead for internal WLAN strategy and deployment at Cisco. Oisin Mac Alasdair is a technical project manager in the Information Technology Group at Cisco. He is the lead program manager of the IT Wireless Architecture Team. Christopher Vinckier is a transformation architect in the Business Technology Architecture Group at Cisco. In this role, he helps customers solve the perennial problems of business technology alignment, adoption, and absorption.

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