October 22, 2005
Traffic on the WLAN
The performance of WLANs in organizations depends upon the volume and type of traffic that they support. Most organizations install an 802.11b WLAN for data and a separate 802.11a WLAN for voice. The increasing number of entertainment services that include music, games, web-browsing, etc are directed as voice traffic.
The WLAN bandwidth requirements will increase, reducing the number of simultaneous users. There will be greater congestion. QoS, for different types of entertainment traffic, will be more complex to deliver. The number of WLAN access points and their connections to the LAN switch will increase.
Read More: Entertainment Overload on the WLAN
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