A city hall WLAN must go live for permitting counters in eight weeks, but full-campus AP installs will take five months. How should the design support phased deployment without stranding interim users?
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Short Explanation
Think of a road rebuild that still needs one lane open—traffic can’t wait for the last mile of asphalt. Phase the WLAN so each cutover still hits the interim SLAs you wrote down, and keep that temporary layout on the same channel/power roadmap as the finished design. That way early floors work now without forcing a rip-and-replace later.
Full Explanation
Phased municipal deployments succeed when interim coverage and capacity targets are explicit design inputs, not afterthoughts. Each phase should meet agreed service levels for the occupied areas while preserving RF reuse, SSID/security architecture, and uplink assumptions that the final design requires. Ad hoc consumer gear or “final-density only” plans create gaps, rework, and acceptance fights. Document phase boundaries, temporary AP counts, and how interim cells fold into the as-built plan.