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