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It’s no surprise that the IT landscape is changing. Still, it can be daunting when change is forced upon you. But change can be good if you turn it to your advantage.

We should state, right up front, that products based on the upcoming IEEE 802.11ac wireless-LAN (WLAN) standard are indeed going to dominate the enterprise wireless local-area network landscape.

Wi-Fi has become such an amazingly successful technology because it has continuously advanced while remaining backwards compatible. The prior generation of Wi-Fi is known as Wi-Fi-certified 802.11n. 802.11n became popular because it improved performance significantly and aided enterprises in dealing with the rapid growth in mobile devices.

Wi-Fi has become such an amazingly successful technology because it has continuously advanced while remaining backwards compatible. Every few years since the 802.11b amendment was ratified, the industry has released successive amendments increasing Wi-Fi data rates and capabilities, but even the latest Wi-Fi systems are able to interoperate with 1999 equipment built to the original

Today we see 802.11n as the standard interface on PCs, tablets, smartphones and other networked devices. This proliferation of Wi-Fi interfaces means more mobile devices and their associated data (including HD video) find themselves on corporate networks, while the capacity and data rates enabled by 802.11n may at times seem barely adequate to support this

Novarum conducted performance tests with current enterprise 802.11ac wireless LAN systems from Aruba and Cisco. This testing goes beyond simple drag race throughput tests by looking at real world scenarios involving high-density throughput and client roaming as well as real applications including VLC media streaming.

The all-wireless workplace is all about mobility. It has to be. Today there are more Internet-connected mobile devices than people. Workplaces should be architected so that every class of user – employees, contractors, customers and guests – gets seamless connectivity appropriate to their role and type of device.

In the past few years, the enterprise computing landscape has changed dramatically. Virtualization, outsourcing, SaaS and cloud computing are creating fundamental changes, and ushering in an era in which enterprises distribute increasingly critical IT assets and applications across multiple service providers. These changes are rendering legacy monitoring tools, which have their roots in the computing

Monitoring IT operations is made costly and inefficient due to the presence of multiple, complex monitoring solutions. These legacy systems have a silo view of the IT environment creating unnecessary complications when trying to resolve infrastructure and availability issues. While system administrators are attempting to resolve these problems the customers and their business are suffering.

These tech-enabled, highly connected buyers are using many different platforms to research, shop, and work, forcing IT leaders to create differentiated customer experiences and support new technologies, such as client mobility and cloud services. At the same time, the growing use of agile development techniques and the move towards an “app economy” are accelerating the