Corporate office space is a busy and constantly changing environment. As employees move, Wi-Fi signals may be blocked by obstacles. In addition, the WiFi signal may be interfered by other nearby WiFi network signals or employees' Bluetooth devices, while tablets, laptops, smartphones, and other WiFi devices automatically connect after entering the WiFi network range (even if these devices do not need to be really (Using a Wi-Fi network) will also affect the performance experience of the entire network.

interference The result of all this interference is that the Wi-Fi network has severe packet loss, which causes the wireless device to resend data, which in turn causes the network to be further congested. Because the Wi-Fi antenna performance of many mobile devices is not strong enough, a lower data transmission rate is often used to keep the connection with the access point in an attempt to minimize packet loss.

Bigger The bigger the bandwidth, the more problems

Because of poor network performance, it is not caused by insufficient bandwidth, so blindly increasing the network bandwidth cannot improve the poor Wi-Fi network performance experience. And adding access points will make the situation worse, because more access points will cause more conflicts and confuse the wireless terminal device, and do not know which access point to connect to.

One of the solutions is to use smart Wi-Fi device access points, while using network software devices supported by special software or network devices optimized for busy network environments. For example, Aruba Networks' software-based Adaptive Radioanagement technology can automatically allocate signal channels and signal power to all access points in the entire network environment, and automatically perform load balancing operations for busy areas to avoid partial network paralysis caused by a certain signal channel overload.

UckRuckus Wireless is a small but fast-growing WLAN equipment manufacturer, and they have also proposed solutions based on software and mature hardware equipment. Ruckus' intelligent Wi-Fi technology allows wireless access points and wireless terminals to achieve optimal signal transmission, reducing network conflicts and congestion.

Ruckus Vice President of Marketing David Callisch said: "You can imagine that both of us are in the company's large conference room. If your voice is lower than the voice of others, then it is difficult for me to understand exactly what you are saying, If you have a pipe between me and you speak into the pipe and I put my ears to the other end of the pipe to listen, you don't need a loud voice to hear me clearly. "

Using a software-controlled antenna array (composed of multiple independent antenna units), the Ruckus wireless access point can send signals to the connected wireless devices. The directional pairing of antennas can be done in real time through software, and parameters of different antennas can be adjusted independently at the same time.