Public works wants to add thousands of Wi-Fi IoT clients to the existing municipal WLAN. What planning step should come first?
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Short Explanation
Thousands of chatty sensors can turn a healthy WLAN into a parking lot of retries. Check capacity, airtime, and security segmentation before the onboarding party. Infinite-SSID myths and 'just add them tonight' are how civic Wi-Fi melts.
Full Explanation
Adding large IoT populations stresses association tables, airtime, DHCP, and security boundaries. Expert planners assess infrastructure limits—capacity, RF utilization, authentication scale, and VLAN/SSID design—before mass onboarding. Disabling security, skipping assessment, or assuming spare SSIDs equal spare capacity are unsafe shortcuts.