The concept of wireless guest access has been around since the early days of 802.11b. It was quickly realized that the convenience of not having to plug into a wire to access the Internet enabled a “why can’t I work here?” mindset. At the start of wireless guest access we saw mostly hospitality use cases for guest access. Like the coffee shop or hotel where travels wanted to connect to the Internet and work or play with technology where and how they wanted. Over time this changed to a question of why do I need to plug into the network at all?
Once wireless access was granted by companies for employee use the next logical request resulted; why can’t our trusted partners use the wireless? Why do they have to leave, ...
