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	April 4, 2008 End-Of-Life: The Forrester Wave™ WLAN Infrastructure by Chris Silva with Rachel Batiancila, Galen Schreck, Rachel A. Dines

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Executive Summary

As enterprises become progressively more mobile, the adoption of wireless LAN (WLAN) that's already in place in the majority of North American and European enterprises continues to proliferate in more areas within organizations. Research has found that WLAN solutions are continuing to mature beyond the basic convenience-driven deployments they were initially created for. Advanced deployments support advanced features such as voice over WLAN and real-time location-based services. As a result of increased application of the WLAN beyond a simple data network, with advanced services being deployed on the network, and the network itself becoming a mission-critical business asset, Forrester finds that user organizations are looking for deployment-specific advice on vendors' strengths in various WLAN application areas. This ongoing evolution of WLAN deployments, paired with feature parity among leading vendors, catalyzed Forrester's decision to retire The Forrester Wave: WLAN Infrastructure.

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