<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This paper presents and discusses various issues pertaining to the deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The popularity of WLANs has steadily increased in the last two years and has led to their deployment in a variety of organizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, making a business case for WLANs is an important step in their deployment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to highlighting the need for a business case for WLAN deployment, the paper outlines the reasons for, benefits of, and security problems associated with, their deployment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter part of this paper presents a case study about the deployment of a WLAN at the University of Akron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therein, it discusses the context for the deployment, the process that was used to justify the deployment, and the efforts made to protect users’ information from security deficiencies of wireless networks.</span></span></p>