Optimal network speed and enhanced performance are two of the most crucial aspects you can consider when it comes to your corporate network. You want all employees and other authorized users to be able to accomplish the tasks of daily business as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately, wireless oversaturation can cause performance issues for all devices and computers on your network, effectively throttling your efficiency and production.
What Is Bandwidth Saturation?
If you’ve ever attempted to utilize a public or group-shared wireless network in a congested area like an airport, hotel, or big box store, you’ve experienced a relatively saturated network. When too many people access a wireless network at one time, all or most of the available bandwidth in one direction or another is in use, saturating the network with requests running back and forth from the browser to the server. Such oversaturation results in increased latency—the time between the moment a user issues a request via the browser and when the server completes the request—as well as performance issues such as timing out, buffering, lost packets, disconnection, and more.
Airports and other public wireless network owners are often aware of the massive amounts of traffic and bandwidth requests that occur during peak hours and usually limit certain high-bandwidth activities to prevent oversaturation and its accompanying issues. By limiting activities like video streaming, specific downloads, and more, public network owners can prevent oversaturation. However, because you must allow employees full access to your network to achieve the tasks necessary to grow your business, you’ll likely need to pursue multiple solutions.
How Do I Test Network Saturation?
Network latency is important—it slows productivity, diminishes employee efficiency, and impedes growth toward your business goals; therefore, addressing it immediately after you notice lag is crucial. The simple solution might seem to be buying more bandwidth. Still, you should determine if WiFi saturation is behind your increased latency, whether user devices are to blame, or if there’s an issue your internet service provider (ISP) needs to address. Testing saturation and identifying the potential source of these issues is usually much more cost-effective than increasing your bandwidth.
The best way to see your network’s bandwidth usage as a whole and conduct accurate wireless oversaturation testing is by using a set of WiFi saturation prevention and network management tools such as those offered by Aruba.
How Aruba Can Help
As a leading provider of wireless LAN solutions, Aruba Networks (an HP Enterprise company) offers several tools to help avoid WiFi oversaturation before it begins. Aruba’s selection of access points, remote access points, switches, gateways, and controllers—as well as its operating system, ArubaOS—helps to streamline your bandwidth and prevent overuse from any single access point. This feature, known as wireless access point balancing, distributes bandwidth requests across access points—allowing optimal bandwidth from your business’s most-used access points while keeping the others primed for spikes in use. Best of all, load balancing occurs automatically, so you won’t need to monitor your network’s hotspots and usage patterns manually continuously.
While in use, Aruba’s network management interface allows superior visibility of all sources of your bandwidth usage, eliminating the need for constant troubleshooting to isolate bandwidth hogs. Aruba’s AirWave, ClearPass and Aruba Central products provide a dashboard for you to view and optimize your bandwidth allocation and see your entire network on one pane of glass. This way, you can prevent access in certain areas, at certain times, or via certain types of requests—or simply watch as Aruba AP balancing technology distributes the load between each of your access points. Wireless access point balancing quickly becomes a crucial tool in your wireless oversaturation prevention efforts, and the Aruba dashboards allow you to view and fine-tune the process as it occurs.
How Can We Assist You?
Maintaining an efficient, responsive wireless network is crucial to your business’s operations on nearly every level, no matter the size of your worksite. Utilizing the Aruba family of hardware and network management dashboard software can effectively prevent latency issues before they occur while allowing continued access to make tweaks to your network as it suits your needs. As an HP Enterprise Partner, Viyu has the Aruba solutions you need to optimize your bandwidth AP balancing needs.
For more information about Aruba, bandwidth oversaturation, or your network’s latency issues, contact Viyu today.
Prevent Wireless Oversaturation on Your Business Network With Aruba
Optimal network speed and enhanced performance are two of the most crucial aspects you can consider when it comes to your corporate network. You want all employees and other authorized users to be able to accomplish the tasks of daily business as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately, wireless oversaturation can cause performance issues for all devices and computers on your network, effectively throttling your efficiency and production.
What Is Bandwidth Saturation?
If you’ve ever attempted to utilize a public or group-shared wireless network in a congested area like an airport, hotel, or big box store, you’ve experienced a relatively saturated network. When too many people access a wireless network at one time, all or most of the available bandwidth in one direction or another is in use, saturating the network with requests running back and forth from the browser to the server. Such oversaturation results in increased latency—the time between the moment a user issues a request via the browser and when the server completes the request—as well as performance issues such as timing out, buffering, lost packets, disconnection, and more.
Airports and other public wireless network owners are often aware of the massive amounts of traffic and bandwidth requests that occur during peak hours and usually limit certain high-bandwidth activities to prevent oversaturation and its accompanying issues. By limiting activities like video streaming, specific downloads, and more, public network owners can prevent oversaturation. However, because you must allow employees full access to your network to achieve the tasks necessary to grow your business, you’ll likely need to pursue multiple solutions.
How Do I Test Network Saturation?
Network latency is important—it slows productivity, diminishes employee efficiency, and impedes growth toward your business goals; therefore, addressing it immediately after you notice lag is crucial. The simple solution might seem to be buying more bandwidth. Still, you should determine if WiFi saturation is behind your increased latency, whether user devices are to blame, or if there’s an issue your internet service provider (ISP) needs to address. Testing saturation and identifying the potential source of these issues is usually much more cost-effective than increasing your bandwidth.
The best way to see your network’s bandwidth usage as a whole and conduct accurate wireless oversaturation testing is by using a set of WiFi saturation prevention and network management tools such as those offered by Aruba.
How Aruba Can Help
As a leading provider of wireless LAN solutions, Aruba Networks (an HP Enterprise company) offers several tools to help avoid WiFi oversaturation before it begins. Aruba’s selection of access points, remote access points, switches, gateways, and controllers—as well as its operating system, ArubaOS—helps to streamline your bandwidth and prevent overuse from any single access point. This feature, known as wireless access point balancing, distributes bandwidth requests across access points—allowing optimal bandwidth from your business’s most-used access points while keeping the others primed for spikes in use. Best of all, load balancing occurs automatically, so you won’t need to monitor your network’s hotspots and usage patterns manually continuously.
While in use, Aruba’s network management interface allows superior visibility of all sources of your bandwidth usage, eliminating the need for constant troubleshooting to isolate bandwidth hogs. Aruba’s AirWave, ClearPass and Aruba Central products provide a dashboard for you to view and optimize your bandwidth allocation and see your entire network on one pane of glass. This way, you can prevent access in certain areas, at certain times, or via certain types of requests—or simply watch as Aruba AP balancing technology distributes the load between each of your access points. Wireless access point balancing quickly becomes a crucial tool in your wireless oversaturation prevention efforts, and the Aruba dashboards allow you to view and fine-tune the process as it occurs.
How Can We Assist You?
Maintaining an efficient, responsive wireless network is crucial to your business’s operations on nearly every level, no matter the size of your worksite. Utilizing the Aruba family of hardware and network management dashboard software can effectively prevent latency issues before they occur while allowing continued access to make tweaks to your network as it suits your needs. As an HP Enterprise Partner, Viyu has the Aruba solutions you need to optimize your bandwidth AP balancing needs.
For more information about Aruba, bandwidth oversaturation, or your network’s latency issues, contact Viyu today.
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