A multi-campus school district must watch WLAN security at every site. Why choose distributed collectors over a single central poller alone?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
One poller across town trying to hear every campus is like one smoke detector covering five school buildings. Put collectors closer to each site so RF and security events are actually gathered, then roll them up centrally if you want. Distance and scale beat wishful central-only listening.
Full Explanation
Distributed WLAN security monitoring places collectors or sensors nearer to each campus so RF and related security telemetry are captured locally before aggregation. A lone central poller may miss or delay remote RF visibility and creates a single collection bottleneck. Disabling branch WIPS or claiming perfect long-distance RF capture misunderstands distributed versus centralized architecture choices.