It’s a couple years ago, and this IT pilot fish is getting set for a road trip. The purpose: Visit his company’s 30 remote offices for a major networking upgrade.

“We were moving away from a T1-based MPLS network to a hardware-based VPN connection back to the corporate data center with actual direct Internet access,” says fish. “I was replacing the network hardware at each location.

“And as long as I was going to be at each site, I thought it would be a good idea to install an inexpensive Wi-Fi access point for guests to get online, or enable our employees with iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices to access the Internet.”

Fish’s plan is to connect the access points to their own ports on the firewall, so security won’t be a problem. And because the Internet connections are pretty fast, he figures they can easily spare the bandwidth to support mobile devices.

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