Foreword
So you want to design an enterprise wireless network? “I can’t connect to the Wi-Fi!” is what you’re going to hear if you don’t get your Wi-Fi right. How do you permanently remove this wonderful end user complaint from your WLAN? It starts with proper design.
I actually considered starting and ending this foreword to the CWDP: Certified Wireless Design Professional Official Study Guide with just the above sentiment. That sums it up, but there is much more to it. Today’s end user expects the wireless network to just work, period. When it doesn’t, customers leave, employees complain, managers scream, and your network is always to blame . . . even when it isn’t.
A few years ago, before Polycom bought them, SpectraLink ran into quite a ...