Most of the younger generation is equipped with basic computer knowledge. I believe most of you that is reading this post would not have a problem setting up your own computer and home network, or getting help from your friend.
Most of these setup will work almost flawlessly with small amount of users. End users will be more likely to be exposed to Small Office Home Office (SOHO) technology where you can purcahase an off the shelves solution from your nearest computer shop.
However, problem will start when you try to use the same setup and solution to cater to a bigger group of people. For example, if you are starting off a company with 50 people. Whilst it will be cheap, a SOHO solution might not fit the bill in this case as the equipments that you are using at home would not be able to support the exponential increase of users.
Let's take example of a Wifi AP, the basic SOHO unit might be able to provide signal coverage for your house and few of your family members. To some people, to cover bigger space and more people would mean adding extra Wifi AP of the same type. Logically, this solution might work as you are adding more equipments to cater more users and coverage area.
However, there are few factors that most of us have left left. By adding more Wifi AP, you are adding more radio interference to your environment which might cause a lot of problem if you do not have an expert to configure it for you. On top of that, you need to consider of having a single SSID or multipe SSIDs in your environment. If you choose to have a single SSID, the configuration would be more complex as you need to choose your wifi chanel precisely to minimize interference and this also does not guarantee that you Wifi network will work flawlessly as your equipments are still subjected to external inteference such as other radio equipments from your neighbors.
Some of the more robust solution to this scenario would be deploying more powerful Wifi AP to reduce the number of equipment needed in your environment. Alternatively, you could use a solution with WLAN controller which is very robust but it come with a higher price tag.
Another example would be to streamline your workstation users. In a home environment with few users, it is easy to control the policy of each workstation manually. You still can afford to access each workstation to check the policy manually.
What if you have 50 workstations? It would be inefficient to spend few hours a day just to make sure that your users are adhering to the workstation usage policy (eg. not allow to install 3rd party software). How can you be sure that all of your workstation are free from third party software or even illegal software all the time?
You might want to consider using Active Directory in your environment to centralize the policies control for all your users. Your IT administrator could set a single policy for all or customize policy for each workstation from the server. By this way, you can be almost certain that all your workstation users are adhering to your company policy and you do not have to sweat if the authority knock at your door.
