Five questions About Wireless Networks

Enterprise Mobile and "Bring your devices to the workplace" BYOD) are becoming increasingly popular, and more wireless network problems are emerging. These problems include: network Access Control for personal devices, restrictions and policies for mobile access, impact of external interference on wireless networks, wireless network security, and mobile device data monitoring.

The good news is that partners can provide you with relevant technical knowledge and support customers in deploying new wireless networks and BYOD and Enterprise Mobile trends. In this article, wireless expert Lisa Phifer answered the questions raised by readers about wireless networks, enterprise mobility, and management of mobile devices in the network. With the answer from the wireless expert, the partner will be able to learn more about how to solve the customer's wireless problems.

Wireless Network Problem 1: wireless network access control for Personal Devices

A reader wrote a letter asking us what wireless access control methods should they use to restrict the access to the network from users' personal devices. Most companies are beginning to provide network access for personal mobile devices. Now, they must find a way to deploy wireless access control policies to prevent users from using their personal devices to access too many network resources.

Wireless Network problem 2: deploying a Wi-Fi policy in school

Deploying a Wi-Fi policy in school may be tricky because different types of users need to be considered. I suggest contacting network administrators of other nearby academic institutions to see what they have taken in terms of Wi-Fi policy. Although it may be difficult to create a policy that fully meets your needs, you should first understand the precautions and important factors, which is an important step in the right direction.

Wireless Network problem 3: wireless network Interference in public places

In conferences and trade exhibitions, wireless network connections are easily affected. For companies that hold semi-annual meetings, wireless network interference will be a big problem. At last, the company's sniffer will find that interference devices usually appear in Channel 11.

Wireless Network Problem 4: WPS attack Prevention Measures

Wireless experts say that enterprise WLAN administrators must take preventive measures to protect the network from new WPS attack tools such as Reaver and wpscrack. They need to have some background knowledge about the WPS protocol to better understand the potential problems.

Wireless Network Problem 5: Wireless Network Monitoring to maintain the data ceiling

As more and more smartphones, tablets, and remote access to cloud services occupy enterprise bandwidth, wireless broadband data users can easily exceed the data ceiling. To avoid this problem, we recommend that you deploy a mobile expense management tool to limit the bandwidth. On the other hand, individuals can use third-party applications to control the bandwidth and analyze the usage and bandwidth usage of each program.