Master your Wi-Fi – explore new ExtremeCloud IQ functionalities!

One of the most important factors that influence the way users experience wireless connectivity is the effectiveness with which the Wi-Fi is managed. To help administrators stay on top of things and ensure the much sought-after network performance and reliability, ExtremeCloud IQ has been equipped with a new standout functionality called Wi-Fi Maps. This capability provides administrators with a visual overview of their network infrastructure, allowing them to identify and analyze the placement of access points and tri radios and facilitating efficient network planning and optimization. It is a starting point that gives us a direct access to a 360 view of the end devices…

With ExtremeCloud IQ, network administrators can upload floor plans to easily identify their wireless access points and analyze coverage areas. However, it’s one thing to manage Wi-Fi in a small enterprise office with less than 100 devices. In case of large manufacturing sites, logistics centers or university campuses, spanning hundreds of thousands of square meters, it can be a whole different ball game…

With the ever-growing number of connected end devices and bandwidth-hungry applications, one of the biggest challenges that many customers are facing is high density. To address this, ExtremeCloud IQ offers unmatched scalability for real-time visualization in large-scale deployments. Struggling to maintain control over your high device density environment? Extreme solution gives you full, instantaneous visibility over not 100 or 200, but more than 500 access points on a single floor and floor plans as large as one square kilometer.

Modern workspace is a mobile workspace. Whether it’s an employee in the office or an autonomous robot transporting goods in a smart warehouse – what they all have in common is that they’re roaming, and their need for connectivity follows closely, posing another challenge for network administrators. To further enhance visibility and ensure that the Wi-Fi is primed for user experience, regardless of device location, ExtremeCloud IQ delivers a client-centric perspective.

By visualizing data from the viewpoint of mobile devices and actual end-users in real time, administrators can assess network performance and troubleshoot issues even more efficiently. Think not about a problem which occurred yesterday or a week ago – you can see, at any given moment, not only when a client is roaming, when the roam happens successfully and when it doesn’t, but also where and why it failed, narrowing down the environmental factors. This enables rapid resolution of connectivity issues that is key for minimizing network downtime and ensuring a consistently reliable performance in highly dynamic environments.

Wi-Fi is no longer an option – it’s a must; an amenity that employees and customers have come to expect as much as running water or electricity. As we celebrate the World Wi-Fi Day, one cannot but wonder what’s in store for the most widely used and recognized standard for wireless networking.

With the official release of Wi-Fi 7 in January 2024, wireless connectivity is about to change once more, as more and more manufacturers are steadily implementing the IEEE 802.11be standard into their devices. In fact, the upcoming Zwarte Cross festival in the Netherlands will be one of the very first music events in the world to leverage the next-generation Wi-Fi 7 access points from Extreme!

However, as technology marches forward, so do the demands on our networks. With ExtremeCloud IQ, network administrators are more than prepared to face the challenges brought by the ever-growing array of smart devices and bandwidth-hungry applications!