WLAN REQUIREMENTS AND PILOT SCORECARD
Companion guide: https://yenra.com/wlan-vendors/
Prepared September 8, 2026. Editable planning aid; no vendor ranking.

Organization/site/date:
Decision owner / technical owner:
Candidate, exact SKUs, firmware and management arrangement:
Required rooms, busiest user count, client models and applications:
Pilot topology, placement, configuration and upstream service:
Differences from planned production:

MANDATORY GATES - define expected results before comparing suppliers.
For each: requirement; test method; expected result; actual result;
evidence location; pass/fail/pending; owner and corrective action.
Client/application compatibility:
Guest/staff isolation and authentication:
Power/backhaul compatibility:
Administration, recovery and account ownership:
Support lifetime and required service continuity:
Additional mandatory requirement:
Any failed/pending mandatory gate requires resolution before acceptance.

PILOT TESTS - repeat equivalent conditions for each candidate.
Fresh join and real application task:
Busy-period workload:
Movement between required locations:
Sleep/wake:
Authorized planned interruption and supported recovery:
Limited administrator role, diagnostics and configuration export:
Evidence should identify devices, locations, timestamps and all attempts.

OPTIONAL WEIGHTED PREFERENCES - use only after mandatory gates pass.
Agree weights first; total must equal 100. Score from 0 to 5 against
written criteria (0 = fails defined preference, 5 = fully meets it).
Untested means pending, not an invented numeric score.
Criterion / weight / score / observation and evidence:
Client experience:
Operations:
Lifecycle cost:
Exit readiness:
Total = sum(weight multiplied by score) divided by 5; maximum 100.
Fictional example: weights 40,25,20,15; scores 4,3,5,2.
(160+75+100+30)/5 = 73/100. These are not product test results.

COST COMPARISON - same ownership period, currency and scope.
Quote date / currency / period:
Hardware and mounting:
Switching, power and other dependencies:
Installation / training / support:
Subscriptions / renewals / replacement:
Taxes, exclusions and growth assumptions:
Expiry behavior and support-end evidence:
Exit/export/device-release terms:

Decision, remaining exceptions, acceptance owner and retest plan:
Source documents: retain exact supplier terms and manuals; the companion
guide links example licensing/control-plane documents and related tests.