But there's an obstacle course awaiting IT executives looking to implement wireless projects. Wireless service coverage and quality varies by location. And different companies providing wireless service in the United States base their services on an array of standards that are not all compatible with each other. There's even the possibility that here in the U.S. we may have to support multiple standards to get the coverage we need. To make sense of all this, you need to study both the benefits and risks of any wireless project to see if the pluses win out.
More security experts suggest starting out slowly with small-scale pilot projects.
Think Risk Deciding whether to go wireless is the first step. And it's important to make the decision by measuring the benefits against the risks. And the fear is you don't know what you don't know. CIOs and other IT experts say you should be able to answer the following three questions. And the fear is you don't know what you don't know.