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WIRELESS
How smart businesses are gaining a competitive advantage using technology
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n a world where technology is constantly evolving, savvy businesses must leverage new, intelligent technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Deploying a Mobility-Defined Network that will allow your business to not only improve efficiency across everyday processes but also increase profits, remain cutting edge and offer the best service to your customers is crucial, said Mark Verbloot, Systems Engineering Manager at Aruba Networks.
Wi-Fi isn’t a new term for this space; in-fact warehouses were one of the first areas that required such a system that could aid in inventory control management. And now, it’s become more important than ever, providing companies with the ability to become smarter and more efficient. In fact, at the beginning of this year, Gartner released the top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 set to infiltrate the workplace and significantly impact organisations over
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the next three years. A robust Wi-Fi infrastructure is required to support these trends, including; computing everywhere, the Internet of Things (IoT), smart machines and advanced analytics. Connection speeds between the Wi-Fi infrastructure and Wi-Fi devices have increased rapidly over the past five years. If fact it’s possible today for devices using the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard to connect to the network at speeds over 1GBps. These speeds will
further increase in the coming years, which really marks a turning point with the use of Wi-Fi as the primary network access method. Whilst such high speeds are often not required in this sector today there is little doubt that with the proliferation of media rich applications and Ultra High Definition video content (4K video) this will change. So, what are the latest wireless innovations and how can the humble Wi-Fi connection allow businesses to