Wi Fi in IT department
Wi-Fi, Enabling Work From Home
No doubt COVID-19 has moved our lives 20 years back. We all are working from home to the best of our abilities. For some, they have realized a full home network upgrade is in order to support the network demands placed. So Enabling Work From Home is to shift Wi-Fi.
Most of us noticed the poor video conferences our colleagues. They are joining with grainy or delayed video & audio is cutting out. Some are dropping off the network and re-joining the video conference on a regular basis.
It is decreasing productivity further and it is because they need to improve their Wi-Fi networks.
Remote Workforce
The challenges and increased Wi-Fi usage is becoming a throatacke. Whether it is the bedroom/ garage/ or dining table work is anywhere in the home. Wi-Fi is not cutting it anymore. Most access points are installing in suboptimal locations and configuring incorrectly. Multiple video conference meetings sometimes occur at the same time on the same access points servicing gaming consoles and video streaming services.
More than ever, our workforce needs the support of IT to help improve their in-home technology experience.
IT Strategy for Home Wi-Fi
We need to enable our workforce with the equipment to do their job perfectly. How does IT provide better Wi-Fi connectivity for the home? Traditionally, the enterprise would gather requirements and create a Wi-Fi design. In the home, we may not have those luxuries. A strategy would encompass different things. From network management for the IT support staff, ease to use and cost.
Every home is different and users may want to customize their own SSIDs. But managing those access points should be easy for IT support staff. Leveraging cloud-managed Wi-Fi is a must. These are affordable and easy to manage.
Supporting the work-from-home
They include features to see network performance and allow for simple troubleshooting. Ubiquiti UniFi and EnGenius provide advance network configurations to help optimize a Wi-Fi network. Deploying cloud-manageable access points can be configured remotely once plugged in, settings are pulled from the cloud. This strategy might not be for everyone and it does not outline every single aspect.
Support during COVID19
But it is a start and we live through the impact of COVID19 and plan for the future where remote work may be done more frequently. We need to shift our mindsets to helping our staff improve their own Wi-Fi networks which can be done with low cost solution.
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