Case Project 6-1: Planning Fixed-Mobile Access
You work for a network consulting firm, and you have been assigned to prepare a presentation for the executives of an amusement park company who are concerned about communication costs and session persistence when employees use their company-issued cellular phones. The network at the park includes extensive 802.11-based APs inside buildings, but many outdoor locations at the park have no WLAN coverage. Employees often use cellular phones for voice communications because they are frequently moving around the park. To save costs, the executives are interested in having the cellular phones use the WLAN when it is in range.
The executives have relatively little training in network technology, so you need to present the concepts of fixed-mobile convergence and internetworking with external networks in a way that the executives can understand. Prepare a slide presentation and a 5- to 10-minute discussion to address the executives' concerns. You also need to address how to modify the WLAN to support fixed-mobile convergence.