Lee Badman of wirednot comments:
Once upon a time, wireless networks were completely the product of the person or persons who designed, installed, and configured them. The WLAN couldn’t think for itself, per se, and important settings like channel and power were determined by the human hands and minds behind each Wi-Fi network. This was mostly a hallmark of the age of Fat Access Points, when our wireless networks were more about general coverage and less the stuff of carefully weaving high-density signal tapestries that support ever increasing client device counts. Now, there is impressive (or utterly maddening, depending on vendor and code version) magic behind the typical modern business WLAN; access points get their configs from some version of a mothership, and mystical “algorithms” choose what power and channel settings each access point will use.
Automatic planning and provisioning takes some of the control of a wireless network out of the hands of the designers. Is that a good thing?
Read more at: Contemplating Auto RF Functions In WLAN Systems
