Level of depedence on wired network?

[promans]

Hello all,
I am graduate student doing a case study on a wireless network design. (if anyone wants to give me a shout out for help, I would be VERY grateful)

My question is, has anyone seen a statistic on what percent of Wi-Fi networks fail because of the physical network construction/design?
I have been looking high and low for a figure on this, and cannot. I thought I had one, but now I cannot find the source I got it from so I am starting to think I invented it.

thanks,
Phil

[promans]

I understand that those types of studies are done to sell a product. However I was looking for a round number so I could include why the stabliltly of the wired LAN is as critical as say 802.1x as a measure of security.

If you have a bunch of 3rd party blades in your rack, and no real standards for wiring, everything is up in the air. You wonder why the network always seems to fail? Look at why it is so poorly built and maintained.

The network I am working with is a University network, and we are connecting APs to the existing hardware. I would like to prove the stablitly of the current network, and how it can handle the extra loads that will be brought to bare.

I realize that the only real way to do this is to do testing on it, but I don't have the means and time to do this. So I was hoping to find some documented quote of "25% of wireless projects fail due to the current wired network in place."

Phil (off to work on more of the paper.)

[Wildcats]

Promans, a properly installed and maintained wired network is so reliable now, I don't suspect that it would be a large factor. Bandwidth and redundancy (and reliability) are easy to come by in a wired Ethernet network.

This raises a question: What percentage of wired networks are properly installed and maintained? In some organizations, the wired network may not be very stable. However, everywhere I have worked has been so dependent on the LAN to work properly, that great value (and $$$) are put into ensuring that the wired LAN is reliable. Where I work now, the Network Manager's salary is directly related to the % uptime of the network. If it's down, he's losing $$ (and so is the company).

A report like you are looking for, will be hard to find.

Cheers.

[promans]

I would like to thank everyone for their input to this point...

It seems there is not going to be a single report or figure that I can balance this report on... time to incorperate the idea that any wireless network will be solely dependant on the wired network it resides on. Thats all there is to it.

If anyone is in a higher education envoriment, and wants to help me out with my case study... feel free to shoot me an email directly:

promans@towson.edu

I am down to the last three sections of my paper, and hopefully I can get it all nailed down shortly so I can graduate with my Masters!

Phil