This document provides information on why it is important to have well-qualified network engineering professionals design, install, configure, and help you manage a wireless network at your hospitality center or your QSR location.

Having someone slap together a few wifi hotspots using consumer-grade devices from your corner consumer electronic store may save you some money to start with; but doing so is more than likely to not only prove very expensive in terms of your ongoing costs alone, but also in terms of the liabilities that you may incur because of potentially exposing your guests (and your staff) to harmful RF/Microwave radiations -and from possibly running afoul of FCC regulations.

Regardless of whether your hospitality center primarily caters to high-end markets (big-spender captive audiences with lots of money: e.g. cruise ships, conference centers, high-value tourism and business travel segments) or budget-conscious hotel/motel clientele; your clients expect you to provide them access to reliable (and secure) wireless data services.

Just as you would be careful when it comes to placement (or hiding) of your Safe (a.k.a. Vault, Strongbox, or Safe Deposit box), you ought to be equally careful (if not more!) in deciding how and where you ought to mount/install your wireless gear. Just as it makes no sense to bolt your safe deposit box right next to your mailbox on the curbside in front of your home, there is no good reason for locating your wifi gear on the outer fringes of your location as well.

Considering that there is usually no visible sign of someone stealing your data-packets and walking away with your confidential information, only a small number of digital-theft victims are fully aware of their digital assets being stolen by others. It is very important, therefore to be very careful in locating your wifi gear judiciously.