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Organization overview

Please describe your company. Name of company

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What is the total number of employees? (Required field)

What percent of your total employees are mobile?

What is the total square footage in your headquarters?How many other locations (i.e. branches, excluding headquarters ) do you have?

What is the average square footage of your facilities per location (excluding headquarter)?

What is the total square footage that require outdoor wireless coverage, at headquarters?

What is the average square footage that require outdoor wireless coverage per location (excluding headquarters)?

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This calculator is designed to provide you with an estimated return on investment on a services-rich wireless network. After entering information on this Profile page, continue to the following

benefits that a Cisco Next-Generation Wireless Network provides. After completing all required fields, click on "Financial Summary" using the navigation bar on the right to see the results.

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How many users are using their laptop or another Wi-Fi connected device for work?

What is the average amount of productive time a user is expected to recover per day as a result of having network access anywhere on-premise? (Minutes)

What is the average number of guests that require network access per month?

What is the average time (minutes) required to provision a guest account?

What is the average hourly rate of external contractors?

Do you encounter situations that require ad hoc network coverage (i.e., seasonal deployments, temporary moves, and construction limitations for wired networks)?

Please specify the number of users you support annually for those ad hoc network deployments.

What is the alternative cost to provide wired network connectivity per user for above situations?

How many unique assets (i.e., laptops, Wi-Fi phones, projectors, etc.) are being tracked weekly?

What is the average time spent looking per asset weekly? (Minutes)

How many assets are marked as lost or remained uncovered monthly?

What is the average cost per asset lost?

What is the opportunity cost associated with not having the asset available for an hour?

How many rogue detections activities (i.e., RF scans) do you perform annually using internal staff?

How long does it take per engagement to participate in rogue detection activities? (Total Man Hours)

How many rogue detection activities (i.e., RF scans) do you perform annually using third-party service providers?

What is the third-party service provider rogue detection cost per RF scan?

How many rogue APs do you identify per year on your premises that require you to manually remove them?

How long does it take to locate and remove each rogue AP from your premises? (Total Man Hours)

How many RF interference related incidents does IT respond to per month?

How long does it take IT personnel to troubleshoot (detect and classify interference source) each issue? (Hours)

How long does it take IT to locate and remove each source of RF interference using a handheld device during a walk-about scan and for system remediation? (Hours)

Security: Constant and thorough network visibility is an integral part of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution. Fill out the questions in this section to find out how Ciscos wireless infrastructure-

integrated approach to comprehensive wireless security reduces capital costs while streamlining security operations. (To include Security in the ROI calculation select "Yes", otherwise "No")

Spectrum Intelligence: Cisco CleanAir technology is a systemwide feature that improves air quality by detecting RF interference, identifying a source and locating it on the floor plan (requires Context

Aware), provides automatic adjustments to optimize wireless coverage around the interference. It enables faster troubleshooting and effective policy enforcement. (To include Spectrum Intelligence in

ROI calculation select "Yes", otherwise "No")


This section will help you calculate the benefits from your investment in a wireless network infrastructure. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network is a services ready architecture that can deliver multiple

applications. For a complete view of the capabilities of the CUWN please scroll down and fill out all sections in this page.

Context Aware: The ability to capture and integrate into business processes detailed contextual information about things such as location, temperature, the availability of an asset, and applications use

Fill out the questions in this section about mobile assets and the users of those assets, to see the impact on your organization's profitability. (To include Context Aware in the ROI calculation select "Yes

otherwise "No")




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What is the total cost to physically monitor your company per year?

Expected percentage reduction in physical security costs if you implement a video surveillance solution

How many video surveillance cameras does your firm plan to set up? Outdoor Indoor

What is the average cost to set up a wired video surveillance (i.e., CCTV or IP) camera? Outdoor $5,000 Indoor

What percentage of video surveillance cameras would you expect to replace with wireless cameras? Outdoor 10% Indoor

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Video Surveillance: A services rich wireless network infrastructure allows you to run a multitude of mobility applications on it. Fill in this section to calculate the expected benefits you

would receive in productivity, operational and IT productivity savings associated with deploying a flexible physical security network that utilizes wireless video surveillance technology. (To

include Video Surveillance in the ROI calculation select "Yes", otherwise "No")

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What percent of total number of employees now (or in the future) use voice over WLAN?

What is the average cellular cost for domestic calls per user? (Monthly)

What is the average cellular cost for international calls per user? (Monthly)

What percent of the user monthly cellular minutes can be reduced by transferring calls to Wi-Fi?

What is the productivity improvement on average per user using Voice over WLAN? (Minutes per week)

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Voice: For an incremental cost you can take advantage of the Cisco wireless network to direct voice calls over Wi-Fi. When used with dual-mode handsets you can significantly decrease

cellular contract fees, while improving productivity and collaboration between employees. Fill out this section to calculate the expected benefits from a Voice over Wi-Fi solution. (To

include Voice over Wi-Fi in the ROI calculation select "Yes", otherwise "No")





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How many users are using their laptop or another Wi-Fi connected device for work?

What is the average amount of productive time a user is expected to recover per day as a result of having network access anywhere on-premise? (Hours)

What is the average hourly fully-loaded rate of your wireless connected workers?


What is the average time (hours) required to provision a guest account?



What is the average time (hours) required to provision a guest account?

What is the average hourly rate of external contractors?

Please specify the number of users you support annually for those ad hoc network deployments.

What is the alternative cost to provide wired network connectivity per user for above situations?

Context Aware benefits


What is the average time spent looking per asset weekly? (Hours)


How many assets are marked as lost or remained uncovered monthly?

What is the average cost per asset lost?

What is the number of months per year?


What is the opportunity cost associated with not having the asset available for an hour?

What is the average time spent looking per asset weekly? (Hours)

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ROI details: This section presents the complete calculation used throughout this tool.



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How many rogue APs do you identify per year on your premises that require you to manually remove them?

How long does it take to locate and remove each rogue AP from your premises? (Total Man Hours)

Spectrum Intelligence benefits


Time required by IT to troubleshoot each source of RF intereference with CleanAir (Hours)




Time required by IT to troubleshoot each source of RF intereference with CleanAir (Hours)


What is the average hourly fully-loaded rate of your IT administrative staff?

Cost of handheld equipment required to perform a walk-about scan to detect and mitigate RF interference


How long does it take IT to locate and remove each source of RF interference using a handheld device during a walk-about scan and for system remediation? (Hours)

Time required by IT to locate and remove each source of RF interference with CleanAir (Hours)

What is the average hourly fully-loaded rate of your IT administrative staff?

Video Surveillance benefits

What is the total cost to physically monitor your company per year?

Expected percentage reduction in physical security costs if you implement a video surveillance solution

How many video surveillance cameras does your firm plan to set up? Outdoor 0 Indoor

What is the average cost to set up a wired video surveillance (i.e., CCTV or IP) camera? Outdoor $5,000 Indoor

What percentage of video surveillance cameras would you expect to replace with wireless cameras? Outdoor 0.1 Indoor

VOIP benefits



What is the average cellular cost for domestic calls per user? (Monthly)

What is the average cellular cost for international calls per user? (Monthly)

What percent of the user monthly cellular minutes can be reduced by transferring calls to Wi-Fi?

Total cellular charges savings



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Average time required to deploy each Wireless Control System (WCS) (Hours)

Necessary equipment to deploy for implementation of WCS (i.e., server, adminitrative effort, and installation)

Average time required to maintain each WLC annually (Hours)

Average time required to maintain each WCS annually (Hours)

Annual maintenance costs for total WLC and WCS


How many Mobility Service Engine hardware do you need to deploy? (Context Aware)

Total MSE hardware costs

Average Context Aware software costs per client licenses

Total Context aware software costs

Average time required to deploy each Mobility Services Engine (MSE) (Hours)

Total deployment costs for MSE hardware and software

Average time required to maintain each Mobility Services Engine annually (Hours)

Total maintenance costs for MSE hardware and software

Recommended number of monitor mode access points

Cost of an 802.11 n Access Point (based on bundle pricing 11/13/09)

Total monitor mode Access Point costs

Average deployment cost per Access Point (cabling and AP installation)

Total Monitor mode Access Points deployment costs

Recommended number of monitor mode access points

Average Adaptive Wireless IPS Software costs per Access Points

Total Adaptive Wireless IPS costs - software licenseRecommended number of Mobility Services Engine hardware for security

Total Adaptive Wireless IPS costs - hardware cost

Design and audit (site survey) cost per square foot

Total square footage indoor and outdoor


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Step 1: Describe Your Firm's Profile

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This calculator is designed to provide you with an estimated return on investment on a services-rich wireless network. The home page contains the main navigational menu for the tool. E

following sections has been designed to be accessed sequentially via hyperlinks from the home page. As the user completes each of these sections, clicking on the HOME button at the of the page returns the user to the home page. After entering information on this Profile page, continue to the following tabs to calculate specific benefits that a Cisco Next-Generation W

provides. After completing all required fields, click on "Financial Summary" using the navigation bar on the right to see the results.

This section provides a list of recommendation to deploy Their associated costs makes up the cost estimates when implementing the solution

This tool quantifies the costs and benefits of implementing a Cisco Wireless solution within your firm.

To create this model, Forrester Research analysts specializing in mobility services and financial analysis

collaborated to define and quantify the benefit areas where companies may realize financial returns

from the implementation. The tool integrates a number of financial modeling techniques to arrive at a

risk-adjusted ROI - one which values the benefits of each implementation, while taking into account all

of the costs associated with the implementation and the uncertainty in the cost and benefit estimates.

The values delivered by the model are calculated using Forrester's Total Economic Impact (TEI)

methodology, which includes elements of cost, benefit, and risk.

In addition to leveraging the knowledge base of Forrester Research, several customers were also

interviewed during the course of the development of this model, and their experiences confirmed the

data presented here.

The step includes a number of basic questions to define your company's structure. The answers to these questions will be used to calculate the costs and benefits of imple

services. If you are unable to answer any of the questions, estimate the answer to the best of your ability.

This step includes a series of question to estimate the benefits gained as a result of implementing the solution.

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