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  • Designing Guest Wi-Fi: Practical Guidance

    Guest Wi‑Fi often gets deployed by default, but it’s worth stepping back and asking whether it truly serves a purpose in your environment. Guest access can be valuable in lobbies, waiting areas, or public‑facing spaces — but it isn’t automatically required everywhere. When you do provide it, the design should be intentional, scoped, and aligned…

  • Why Wi-Fi Site Surveys Matter

    The Myth of “Just Add More Access Points” Many businesses attempt to solve Wi-Fi problems with a quick fix: “Let’s just add more access points.” While this may seem logical, it often leads to more issues than it resolves. Wi-Fi is a shared medium, and without a proper wireless site survey, adding access points can…

  • Wi-Fi 7: Practical Tips for Deployment

    Introduction: Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Just an Upgrade — It’s a Redesign Wi-Fi 7 introduces a new generation of wireless technology that expands the 6 GHz band with 320 MHz channels and multi-link operation (MLO). On paper, it offers substantial throughput and low-latency improvements. In practice, rolling out Wi-Fi 7 isn’t as simple as swapping out…

  • Wi-Fi 7: Floor-to-Floor

    Deploying high-performance Wi-Fi across a multi-story corporate headquarters is no small feat. Recently, we completed a full-scale Wi-Fi 7 rollout, combining Cisco’s latest enterprise hardware and Ekahau predictive design and validation tools to deliver a network that’s both high-capacity and future-ready. Project Overview: Designing a Robust Wireless Network The client needed a WLAN capable of…

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My name is Chester and I want to welcome you to The Network Pulse. The Pulse is a Blog where I share practical insights from hands-on experience across wired and wireless environments, with a particular interest in Wi-Fi.

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