Provide ubiquitous indoor/outdoor campus wide coverage that supports voice, data, video conferencing, and collaboration. Increase wireless reliability, connectivity, and security.

Highbrow’s problems

You work as a networking consultant for Network Solutions Group (NSG). Highbrow Education is a valued NSG client. Highbrow is an expanding educational institution with more than 5,000 students, faculty, and staff spread across a large campus.

Highbrow’s CIO wants to incorporate video conferencing into the school’s IT services. Highbrow currently uses 802.11g wireless technology with wireless access points located throughout the main campus, primarily in academic areas. Because of the aging wireless technology and rapid growth of the campus in general, users have been experiencing a lot of connectivity issues and latency.

The CIO knows that adding video conferencing to the mix will only exacerbate the problems. Robert, your immediate supervisor, wants you to propose a solution for updating Highbrow’s campus Wi-Fi.

For this assignment:

Research WLAN technologies that will resolve Highbrow’s problems.

Write a summary report that addresses the following goals:

Provide ubiquitous indoor/outdoor campus wide coverage that supports voice, data, video conferencing, and collaboration.

Increase wireless reliability, connectivity, and security.