I. Your employer, Welgreen Pharmaceuticals, is a large manufacturer and distributor of generic, over-the-counter healthcare products. Its corporate campus consists of three buildings within two blocks of each other in the city of Chicago. Each building houses approximately 100 employees, in the following departments: Administration, Accounting, Research, Legal, Quality Control, Order Fulfillment, and Production.

In addition, Welgreen Pharm owns a large distribution warehouse approximately ten miles away from the headquarters. Until now, its networks have relied entirely on wired connections. The company’s CIO (chief information officer) decided long ago that she would wait until wireless technology “settled down” before investing in it. 1. What can you tell her about the wireless standards that might convince her that now is the time to adopt wireless technology?
There are many advantages to wireless networks. Some advantages of a wireless network are convenience, mobility, ease of set up, the cheaper cost in the long run, and with the newest 802.11 standards the throughput could be just as good as or even better than some Ethernet connections without the hustle of all the wires.
2. Also, what can you tell her to convince her that wireless networking could improve the company’s productivity?
With the implication of a wireless network it opens up more options for employees such as the ability to use laptops and their smartphones to complete work so it can be completed however they would like.
3. Which employees could make best use of wireless connections and how?
The production, order fulfillment, and research departments would probably benefit the most from the wireless connections so that they can work while on the go and easily update any data even when outside the office.
4. In what type of situations would all employees benefit from wireless