We have a hotel client in San Francisco supporting wireless at their 16 story/120 room property. In the past year alone we have seen their guest wireless usage increase to more than double.

In 2011 we would see stats of 20-25 users passing 8GB of data. We now see 80 concurrently connected devices, passing 25-40GB of data a day. That’s practically a four fold increase of data in just a little over a year and these numbers are consistent across all our wireless hotel clients.

Our Take on Wireless Trending:
User capacity increases: mobile device driven
Bandwidth usage increases: video driven
Cell phone offloading: hasn’t occurred too much, this is the next trend
Coverage: everywhere. WiFi is not just in the lobby anymore
User expectations: system uptime, stability, ease of use, free
Customer expectations: coverage, stability, support WMM (data voice video),
Management features: simple dashboard view of system and usage stats.

To try it out:

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or Read configuration instructions.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Link to when specific Cisco Unified Communications products will support Microsoft Windows 7.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6789/ps7046/ps7282/product_bulletin_c25-563280_ps556_Products_Bulletin.html

The Fusion 300 is the ideal WLAN Controller for next generation Wi-Fi networks for the small to medium sized business (SMB), providing an unmatched voice and data mobility solution.

The Fusion 300 is easy to deploy and manage, is 802.11n ready (software update), provides enterprise-grade security, and provides toll-quality voice and seamless roaming for Wi-Fi capable phones.

The solution consists of two main components: the Fusion 300 Wireless LAN Controller and Fusion 50 Access Points (APs), which combine to allow the fastest and most cost effective entry to the rapidly growing Wi-Fi mobility market.

The Fusion 300 is optimized for environments that may have limited in-house IT or wireless expertise and scales seamlessly from a few users up to 250 users. EasyPoint™ provides plug-and-play set-up, usually within 15 minutes, and automatic RF optimization.

Fusion 300 controller:

Each Fusion 300 controller has two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, and can support as few as two or as many as 25 access points, and as many as 250 users. Users don’t need a separate authentication or security infrastructure: The controller has a built-in RADIUS server and portal, support for 802.1X authentication, a separate guest network, and priority traffic settings. Features aslo include: automated channel selection, security, and radio-frequency planning. Other features are set up by filling in templates, which then are applied automatically across the access points.

Fusion 300 Specs, features:

Scalability, Resiliency, and Redundancy

Client load balancing

Automatic coverage healing around failed APs

Directly Managed up to 25 access points

Clients 250

Clients/radio 60

ESS 8

BSS/switch 128

BSS/radio 16

VLANs 4,096

VLANs/AP 100

Local EAP users 256

Captive portal for guest users

Fusion 50 access point features:

The access points can be managed as Layer 3 devices over a LAN or WAN.

One 10/100 LAN Port

One DB9 Serial Port

Two External High Performance Antenna

Built-in 802.11b/g Capability

Power over Ethernet (PoE) Enabled

Dynamic transmit power control – via WLC

Automatic channel selection – via WLC