Wireless in the Enterprise: Mobility Services Case Studies

Wireless in the Enterprise: Mobility Services Case Studies, originally uploaded by tgray04.

Hitachi, UC Berkeley and Global Manufacture of Consumer Goods



Early Deployment Challenges

- some kind of way to dynamically change channels on wireless networks, and find products to address scalability and coverage.

- trying to get to a single system to allow users to go anywhere, be able to open up their laptops, and work without IT intervention. Machine and user certs. Automatic renewal of certs.

- ubiquitous SSID for entire corporation

- Security in shared areas with other companies

- Guest networks



802.11 to locate assets / location based services - location based service allowed the company to locate an infected laptop within 15 minutes after a virus was detected.