CWNA Guide to Wireless LANs, Second Edition 1 Planning for a Wireless Network • “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail” • Some steps involved in planning wireless networks similar to planning wired network – Many steps significantly different • Basic planning steps: – Assessing needs – Weighing benefits – Calculating costs
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CWNA Guide to Wireless LANs, Second Edition 1
Planning for a Wireless Network
• “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail”• Some steps involved in planning wireless
networks similar to planning wired network– Many steps significantly different
Assessing Needs: Reviewing the Current Network (continued)
Table 6-1: Current network table
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Assessing Needs: Reviewing the Current Network (continued)
Figure 6-1: Network diagram
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Determining Benefits
• Hard Benefits• Soft Benefits
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Calculating Return on Investment
• Intel Corporation’s wireless LAN model:– Implement a pilot– Develop a report– Assemble data– Calculate ROI
Table 6-2: Three-year WLAN costs and benefits
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Designing the Wireless LAN
• Involves determining:– Which deployment scenario is best– Which IEEE wireless network standard should be
used– Type of AP management to implemented– Where wireless devices should be located
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Determining the Location of the Wireless Devices
Table 6-3: Interference by objects
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Ad Hoc Mode
Figure 6-3: Ad hoc hidden node problem
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Infrastructure Mode
Figure 6-4: Interference from using same channel
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Infrastructure Mode (continued)
Figure 6-5: Channel reuse
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Infrastructure Mode (continued)
Figure 6-6: Flip flop between access points
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Deploying a Wireless Network
• If planning/designing done correctly, deploying can be easiest step
• Must consider actual placement of APs– Place APs exactly where they were designed to go– To avoid interference, better to place APs higher
• Be careful if placing APs in plenums• If needed, can use PoE
• Good idea to configure WLAN on own network segment
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Providing User Support
• Training• Support
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What is a Site Survey?
• Design goals for a site survey:– Achieve best possible performance from WLAN– Certify that installation will operate as promised– Determine best location for APs– Develop networks optimized for variety of
applications– Ensure coverage will fulfill organization’s
requirements– Locate unauthorized APs
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What is a Site Survey? (continued)
• When to perform a site survey:– Before installing a new wireless network– Before changing an existing wireless network– When there are significant changes in personnel– When there are changes in network needs– After making physical changes to a building
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Site Survey Tools: Wireless Tools
Figure 7-1: Adjusting AP power levels
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Site Survey Tools: Wireless Tools (continued)
Figure 7-2: External antenna connectors
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Site Survey Tools: Measurement Tools
Figure 7-3: Full-featured site survey analyzer software setup
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Site Survey Tools: Measurement Tools (continued)
Figure 7-4: Full-featured site survey analyzer software results
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Site Survey Tools: Measurement Tools (continued)
Figure 7-6: Basic site survey analyzer software results