With 60 percent of enterprises upgrading or deploying wireless local area networks in 2005, comprehensive management of the wireless network is a top priority to limit burgeoning operational costs. A lack of standards has confused the market resulting in a vendor mix of proprietary and open solutions heavily dependent on hardware capabilities. WLANs are graduating from employee-initiated deployments to centrally managed networks albeit separately from the wired network currently. Without holistic management, operational costs of these networks grow proportionally with the number of access points.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2118015/enterprise-wlan-grows-up.html