Building a cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable Wi-Fi infrastructure is one of the great challenges facing enterprise IT today. This session will explore the strategies, options, and technologies available now and over the next few years, as well as the key application demands that will influence the evolution of enterprise infrastructure going forward.

With more than 250,000 students generating 50 million hits a day across 42 terabytes of content and 160,000 courses, the University System of Georgia's learning system is no stranger to the need for high-performance wireless infrastructure. Providing a private cloud serving other state agencies, including the Georgia Department of Education's 189 school districts and 1.6 million students, means that the university system must provide the best available wireless strategy and technologies. Join us to learn how they do it.

The role of the network is transforming as organizations adapt to new trends across the cloud, big data, security and mobility.  New technologies like IEEE 802.11ac are enabling improved Wi-Fi client densities and faster connectivity — now with wired performance available over the wireless LAN.  While Wi-Fi technology is advancing, the role of the network is also shifting. The network isn’t just to solely provide connectivity and plumbing between devices, but is now an enabler of the business.  Join us to understand and learn how HP Networking can unlock the business value of your Wi-Fi network with new SDN-enabled innovations and location-based services.

• Simplify with SDN-enabled Unified Wired & Wireless Networks - HP
• An Insider's View of 802.11ac - Ruckus Wireless 
• Simplifying the Complexity of Wireless Deployments - Xirrus

With a global footprint, and key offices across the United States, Turner Broadcasting has unique requirement for wireless infrastructure that require planning for future growth. Join us to hear more about it..

Mobile enterprise challenges are mounting. We must now enable users simple and secure access to the network, ensure applications run smoothly, and build sufficient capacity to handle unpredictable usage and future growth. Yet a recent Gartner report states that “by 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning.” Moreover, a typical wireless user is provisioned with less than 5% of the bandwidth of a typical wired user. To address this properly, Wi-Fi optimization requires designing for the user, device, application, spectrum and capacity. This session will examine critical design components to ensure predictable performance, even under heavy loads.

While the new 802.11ac standard is clearly the future of organization wireless LAN infrastructure, a variety of deployment options are available to meet essentially every requirement and consideration. This workshop will dig into each of these in depth, examining the alternatives and helping attendees to refine their .11ac plans.