We help your business push the edge.

Mobility is the new standard, thanks to its many benefits and inherent flexibility. Unfortunately, these benefits do come with some challenges. The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend has forced Enterprise organizations and SMBs alike to re-think their network architecture. Telecommuting and green initiatives are also on the rise, pushing end user needs beyond the limitations of traditional “wired” connectivity. Mobile applications are pushing businesses to the wireless “edge,” but their inherent benefits outweigh the temporary discomfort of their associated growth pains. Mobile integration is here to stay.

Fortunately, adding wireless capability or boosting your existing wireless infrastructure can be easy, with a detailed network assessment and careful planning. Carousel Engineers design your wireless ecosystem to specifically support your strategic business objectives and the business benefits of incorporating wireless are well worth the investment. Push your business to the edge, with wireless mobility!

Key Business Benefits

Maximize Mobility - Minimize Pain Points

Carousel offers a total Wireless Solution from edge switching to access points. We focus on consolidating points of management across your network. Traditional network administration sometimes reflects a militaristic mindset – layer your defenses and keep intruders out. This approach is growing obsolete as networks migrate from hardwired workstations to accommodating computing policies like BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Happily, this evolution increases collaboration between employees, customers and guests alike. The key is to adequately provision for user populations and enable granular control over end users.

We eliminate these common pain points.

The Need for Speed – Wireless and mobile integration does place demands on the network infrastructure. As speed increases, web-based applications become “fatter” and the need for increased throughput becomes more critical. Fortunately, the ratification of 802.11n means that wireless networks can now give end users the same level of connectivity they receive through wired LAN connections. Carousel can assist in this migration from the legacy A, B, and G to N speed. We conduct the necessary planning to eliminate bottlenecks in your network with the goal of minimizing network complexity.

Hey! You! Get Offa My WLAN! – In metropolitan areas, businesses can experience signal interference due to the sheer number of wireless networks within a geographically restricted space. Carousel understands the need for visibility into the air to allow for proper admittance of users onto the network. At the same time, we design our solutions to reduce interference from neighboring RF environments.

Resource Allocation – Proper resource allocation is critical to a well-architected wireless network. Guest access is essential in business today but the ability to effectively separate internal corporate resources from guests on the network can mean the difference between an accommodating network and a compromised network. We recommend allowing for intuitive and self-servicing guest access while maintaining, if not improving, your level of security. We also ensure that accommodating mobile devices should not result in sacrificing your ability to manage and control your users.

Pushing the Edge – In addition to protecting your network against unauthorized users, Carousel wireless solutions are designed to provide a true extension of your edge to the air. Our designs protect against security compromises and sustain network policies throughout your migration. We are sure to leverage the appropriate switching for your devices’ end points, so your selected network policies are sustained even when your edge is extended.

Reveal the Invisible – Wireless technology presents unique challenges because, of course, there are no tell-tale cables to trace your signal. Dead zones are a mobile user’s worst enemy when paired with wireless VoIP deployments and mission critical applications. Carousel’s heat-mapping technology allows your IT staff to see their coverage and signal strength as your network is extended into the air. When you’re dependent on your wireless network, this increased visibility is essential to maintaining comprehensive coverage throughout your communications environment.

Building Your Wireless Ecosystem

We understand that your business runs on its communications and cannot afford to have a “dark zone” in your wireless network. We kick off each customer engagement by gaining a thorough understanding of your physical environment, how wireless signals might diffract around certain materials and how they are absorbed or reflected.

In conjunction with this physical analysis, we discuss your network demands – what applications are mission-critical and what are your daily usage scenarios. We mesh these details with the physical heat mapping of your facility to develop mock drafts of your varied environments, integrating them with physical floor plans. This ensures that we’ll build the coverage you need for the ins and outs of your daily business and that, for example, the pipes leading up to your access points can sufficiently manage your traffic.

Lastly, we do a physical walk-through to evaluate the environment in person. This careful study gives us the information we need to create a detailed design which will provide you with comprehensive wireless coverage throughout your facility and the appropriate bandwidth allocation and security enforcement where you need it. A Carousel Engineer and Project Manager work in tandem with you throughout this design process to ensure your wireless ecosystem is crafted to address all of your strategic business objectives.

Why Carousel?

Carousel’s primary value-add comes from our consultative approach. We’re not just a VAR - we want to understand the ins and outs of your strategic business objectives so we can sufficiently support them with a solution that is designed to drive your success. We take the forecast of where you’d like to be and go back to our drawing boards to craft a recommendation which will fuel your vision.

Our deep technical expertise is another tremendous Carousel differentiator. Wireless networks are a great example of, “if you build it they will come.” We’ve learned through our extensive installations that although you might have planned to accommodate 15 users, it’s wise to plan for 50. We also get into the nitty-gritty of implementation specifics as these include a myriad of "must consider" factors.

Carousel takes great pride in our extensive resource of partner relationships. We draw on these relationships to design truly vendor-agnostic solutions. We recognize that different partners offer different strengths – one partner may provide higher levels of security and another may specialize in VoIP roaming – so we provide multiple vendor proposals customized to address your specific business objectives.