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• Watch out for trauma and x-ray areas where the walls
may be lead-lined. Locate elevator shafts, which are
usually co-located in hospitals and may be detrimental to
your RF signal.
• Hospitals are also very concerned with aesthetics. Large
antennae hanging from the ceiling tiles generally are not
a good idea.
• You may have to survey at each data rate and find out where
the coverage pool is for each data rate. The Cisco Site Survey
Utility surveys at a given rate and does not rate shift.
• You will need to map out the higher data rate cells so they can
be shifted to the proper areas. You will need to map out the
lower data rate coverage cells with an eye on the overlap of
these cells and on frequency selection. This can be time
consuming but may well be necessary, depending on your
customer's needs.
• Make sure that your kit includes the adapters for the
LM card (MMCX – RP-TNC). This way you will be able to
attach a variety of antennae to the LM card and emulate
your client’s desired installation.
• It is always a good idea to carry more than one AP.
LAN Infrastructure
• If the switch sees each port as a VLAN and there are AP's on
each port, the switch is not set up to handle users moving from
one VLAN to another.
• You may also want to consider the need for a design using a
single VLAN spanning multiple switches as your roaming area
with multiple APs. This allows the best continuum of
uninterrupted connectivity to allow almost all applications to
work seamlessly. This requires that you be careful about the
overall amount of ambient broadcast/multicast traffic in the
same area, and the effect this may have on all nodes.
• Most networks use two of the four pair of wires. All four
pairs are punched down onto the connector, but only two
are actually used.
• The plenum is the space between the drop tile ceiling and the
true ceiling.
• These cables are 9913 style, and the total loss for a 100
foot extension cable is estimated at 6.7dB, including
cable loss and connector loss.
• Keep this loss in mind if you are considering using
an extension cable.
• The cables are available in 25, 50, 75, and 100 foot
lengths. These cables fit most needs.
• If you need a specific size cable you can order
custom made cables from cable manufacturers.
• "On the wall above the doorway, two feet left of EXIT sign" might
be a better explanation.
• Explain your objective for the site survey. What are the
customer's needs and expectations?
• Include a list of the parts that will be needed.
• Nulls are a fact of life with RF. Nulls will be all around
you, but their positions may be constantly changing. As a
forklift drives through a warehouse, or a person walks
through an office, radio waves may be reflected off of
these moving surfaces. As the location of the forklift
changes, so do the nulls.
• Once you have moved the AP, then survey the coverage of
the AP.
• Once you have decided on the best location for that AP,
then move to a different corner of the facility and repeat the
process. In a simple warehouse like the one shown above,
you would repeat the process four times. The survey of the
RF coverage would then be complete.
• In a more advanced survey, repeating the process four
times might only provide coverage around the perimeter
of the facility. You would then need to fill in the holes.
This is where experience and judgment will come into
play. Some engineers might elect to survey the perimeter
and then fill in the center.
• Data Rates - Sets the bit rate at which the packet will
be transmitted. No rate shifting will be performed.
• Delay Between Packets - Sets the delay (in
milliseconds) between successive transmissions. Set this
to a low rate to watch the information scroll across the
screen as the site survey is performed. Setting this to a
higher value will give you time to examine each packet's
transmission.