Should you plump for a fat or thin wireless Lan?

摘要

When a company with up to 100 staff considers installing a wireless local area network, is it OK to go to the local PC store and buy a cheap, shrink-wrapped device, or should it spend several times the amount on an "enterprise class" product? A business may have dozens of branch offices that are ideal candidates for adopting a wireless strategy. Is it best to choose the same product already installed at the head office - probably a fully featured WLan switch - or a budget, off-the-shelf alternative? It is an interesting debate, which the likes of Symbol and Trapeze Networks - enterprise-class WLan switch suppliers whose products my company Broadband Testing has tested in the labs - are involved in constantly.