Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses

WLAN Deployment Scenarios

Given the growing popularity of wireless technologies, opportunity abounds for IT staff and SMB users to come up with creative WLAN deployment scenarios. Health care, education, retail, manufacturing, and general administrative office environments are only a few of the SMB types for which WLANs are prime candidates.

Consider the following generic scenarios that approach WLAN design based on the size of the WLAN infrastructure and the anticipated number of users and their activities, rather than the size or type of the business itself:

• A small office or a workgroup deployment

• An enterprise deployment

• A telecommuters deployment

A Small Office or Workgroup Deployment

In a small office or a workgroup deployment, one or at ...