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Title: Fusing wired and wireless: the dawn of universal, consistent connectivity
Post by: Brian Dao on March 17, 2015, 12:46:23 pm

Fusing wired and wireless: the dawn of universal, consistent connectivity

By Yanick Pouffary, HP Distinguished Technologist and Chief Technologist, Network and Mobility Services

 

The industry has embraced the term ?unified wired and wireless? (UWW), but a better name ? or at least a better way to think about it ? might be ?universal consistent connectivity.? With the emphasis on consistent. After all, end users don?t care whether the network resources they?re using are ?unified? or not. What they want is a consistent experience across both the wired and wireless networks, without unexpected differences, glitches, or downtime, no matter what device they?re using.

 

Similarly, from the network administration standpoint, a lack of consistency is quite costly; it?s expensive to run two separate networks and two sets of policies. If you?re not able to manage your wired and wireless networks from a single pane of glass, enforcing policy and being able to treat your users in a unifying manner is very difficult to achieve. So UWW is about far more than integration; it?s about how to improve service delivery to end users, how to apply policies and enforce them in a consistent manner, and, yes, how to reduce costly duplication of tools and activities at the same time.

Source: Fusing wired and wireless: the dawn of universal, consistent connectivity (http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Networking/Fusing-wired-and-wireless-the-dawn-of-universal-consistent/ba-p/181274)