What’s New
Ekahau Site Survey 7
Jussi Kiviniemi, Vice President, Wi-Fi ToolsTwitter: @jussikiviniemiMail: [email protected]
Highlights
• Multi-Adapter support allows faster site surveys
• 2.4 or 5GHz visualization is now much easier
• Merging projects now merging within the same floor
• Signal difference heatmap shows what’s changed between surveys
• Channel Planner for those of you still not relying on Auto-RF
• New channel configuration that supports touch screen
• Undo & Redo buttons help when using touch screen
• Faster opening & visualization of huge projects 35-90% difference
Multi-Adapter Support
• Survey with up to 3 external USB NICs
• Survey with up to 10 Wi-Fi tags
• Survey with up to 3 NICs and 10 tags simultaneously
• User benefit #1: Faster site surveys
• User benefit #2: Faster RTLS tag surveys
• User benefit #3: Simultanous site survey & RLTS tag surveys
Multi-Adapter Support / Refreshed UI
Is the network working OK?(RSSI, SNR, Data rate, overlap)
Active survey (integrated NIC)
Passive survey3 external NICs:One on 2.42 on 5GHz
Configure scanned channels for passive survey
Launch spectrum analysis
New NIC channel configuration
• Supports multi-adapter & multi-tag• Works better with touch screen
Easier 2.4 / 5GHz selection
• Helps visualizing only one band or the other
Click on either band to enable / disable
Improved Project File Merge
• Has to do with several surveyors working at the same time
• Previously, surveyors had to work on different maps
• Now, surveyors can work on the same map simultaneously
Signal Difference Heatmap
• Shows what has changed in the network over time• Signal strength differences• Interference differences• Overlap differences
• Easily spot network problems and other changes• Can also shows differences between survey devices
Assign the surveys to be compared as “Secondary”
Select difference in Signal Strength, SNR, or # of APs.
Blue = weaker signal in Secondary survey(Broken radio? Tx power reduced? AP removed?)
Red = stronger signal in Secondary survey(AP added? Rogue AP? Tx power increased?)
Green = similar signal during both surveys
Channel Planner
• Previously, channels were planned only for simulated APs, only when using Auto AP placement (Auto-Planner)
• Now, channels can be planned for simulated or measured network, at any time
Undo & Redo buttons
• Helps in touch screen use
Huge projects: Faster opening & visualization
• Up to 90% faster opening of projects• Up to 35% faster drawing of
heatmaps
Thanks to our friends at Cisco for motivating us to optimize the code ;)
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