WiFi

Enterprise WiFi Controller Architecture: Cisco and Aruba WLAN Design This article is part of the Enterprise WiFi series. New to enterprise wireless? Start with the overview: Enterprise WiFi Architecture: From Standards to Deployment Why Controller Architecture Matters An access point is just a radio transmitter. What makes it part of an enterprise network — with consistent policy, seamless roaming, centralized management, and security integration — is the controller architecture behind it. ...

Enterprise WiFi Architecture: From Standards to Deployment WiFi is the most visible part of any network. When it works, nobody mentions it. When it doesn’t — within minutes the IT team hears about it from every corner of the building. But wireless networking is deceptively complex. What looks like “just WiFi” to a user is a stack of interacting decisions: which 802.11 standard, which frequency band, how many access points, which controller architecture, how authentication is handled, how roaming behaves, how the RF environment is managed. Get any of these wrong and the network that looked good on paper fails in production. ...