wi-fi capacity planning ekahau site survey 9.0 preview
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Wi-Fi Capacity Planning
Ekahau Site Survey 9.0 Preview
Jussi Kiviniemi – SVP, EkahauMikko Lauronen – PM Director, Ekahau
This webinar will be recorded
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Ekahau <3 Open Reality
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Agenda
4Capacity essentials
4Challenges with current capacity planners
4Ekahau 9.0 capacity planner & demo
4Q&A
4 Duration: 60 minutes
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4Jussi Kiviniemi4Vice President
4Twitter: @jussikiviniemi
4At Ekahau since 2002
4Mikko Lauronen4Product Line Manager
4Twitter: @ekamikko
4At Ekahau since 2005
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4Want to be in a part of the Wi-Fi Community? Use Twitter.
4@JussiKiviniemi
4@EkaMikko
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Corporate Facts
4Leading provider of tools for designing and maintaining Wi-Fi networks
4Tens of thousands of happy customers, around one million product users
4Systems integrators, telecomoperators, network owners and Wi-Fi infrastructure vendors
4Privately held
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Troubleshoot Validate
PlanMonitor
Mobile Survey
Spectrum Analyzer
Site Survey Pro & 3D Planner
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What’s happened recently4ESS 8.0
4 Automatic wall detection from CAD (WOW)4 Wall material editor
4ESS 8.14 PDF import4 Disable 2.4GHz manually4 EIRP vs mW4 Shortcut keys
4ESS 8.54 Spectrum analyzer integration4 Real-Time Frequency Monitor (RTFM)4 Custom notes4 WOW layout selection4 Dual-5GHz support
4ESS 8.64 Windows high res support4 Photo notes, cable notes, area notes4 Spectrum notes4 Improved one-click reporting
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600 improvements in 2.5 years
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Customers & Partners:100 out of Fortune 500
use Ekahau
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“Stable, speedy, reliable, features you need” – Sam Clements
“Quicker. Easy to use. More stable. Simplest.” – Blake Krone
“Continuous innovation and development” – Ian Morris
“I love it! A lot more intuitive than [competing product]”– Anthony Poli
“Great investment, exceptional software” – Ben Carbrera
“The time savings are immerse, from days to hours” – Ryan Videtich
Customers & Partners
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“Always my planning tools of choice.” – Jim Florwick
“Aruba chooses to use Ekahau” – Michael Tennefoss
“It’s AWESOME!” – Greg Kamer
“This tool rocks!” – Will Aguilar
“Our team and customers love Ekahau tools” – Abby Strong
“The best site survey / planning tool” – Tom Berry
Customers & Partners
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Education / Training Options
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Online Training Material
ekahau.com/training4 Wi-Fi expert learning material
4 Dozens of hours of video
4 How-to’s & best practices
4 Webinars
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One-to-One Webinars
Jerry R. Olla
4 Ekahau Technical Engineer4 Has designed and deployed Wi-Fi
networks for years4 Has used all the Wi-Fi design
products
Nick Turner
4 Wi-Fi Design, APoS, PtP and WLAN deployment since 2011
4 Experience with Ekahau Site Survey Pro, AirMagnet, Chanalyzer, Cisco Spectrum Expert
4 Also on the CWNP Certification track
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Ekahau Certified Survey Engineer
Keith Parsons
4 CWNE #34 Trained Wi-Fi for 10+
years4 3,000+ engineers trained4 Deployed Wi-Fi from
Arctic Circle to Antarctica
Devin Akin
4 CWNE #14 ”The Godfather of Wi-Fi”4 Founder of CWNP Organization4 Written several books on WI-Fi
Our Trainers
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4A tightly-knit community for active Ekahau users
4Talk Wi-Fi, meet new people, get together, have fun
4Participate in product development
Ekahau Master
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Who was here the last time?
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Requirementsdefinition
Planning
Validation
Troubleshooting
Chilling
GatheringRequirements
Planning
Validation
Troubleshooting
“Designed Wi-Fi”“Worry Later Wi-Fi”
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Not High Capacity
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High Capacity
4If you have a few customers, just one bartender, even one working slowly, will suffice
4It’s when you have more customers that things get more tricky. Just like with high capacity Wi-Fi.
Highdatademand
Lotsofaccesspoints
Tonsofclients
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4Just like the customer needs to be close to the counter and speak clearly to the bartender to get beer quickly
4… Wi-Fi prefers high signal strength and noise level to achieve high data rate
Lowsignalstrength,very
lowSNR
Highnoiselevel
Highdatarateshere
Why is this guy unhappy?
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Calculating Capacity
Beer,wineorshots?
Numberofclients
Clienttypes
Distributionofclients
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Summary
Ensurehighdatarates
Highsignal
strength
Smartnetworkdesign
Fairlynew
clients&APs
Calculatecapacityneed
Numberofusers
Numberof
devicesDatausageper
device
MaximizeAirtime
Prefer5GHz
MinimizeCCI
Areastocover
MinimizeSSIDs
Lownoise
SiteSurvey
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Problems with current planners
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Problems with current planners4High capacity areas
4Overpopulation of APs
4Hallway-Fi
4No disabling 2.4GHz radios
4No support for dual-5GHz
4Ease of use?
4Accuracy of capacity calculations
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What we’re doing about it?
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Define areas of normal vs high capacity4Draw multiple areas
4Per-area capacity and coverage requirements
4Indicate number of devices4Device type4Spatial streams4Applications run on the device
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Completely Re-WrittenAP Placement Algorithm
4Auto-Planner avoids AP overpopulation4If no free spectrum (channels) available, doesn’t
put more APs in
4When possible, avoids 4Hallways4Restrooms4Elevator shafts
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Completely Rewritten Channel Allocation
4Disables unnecessary 2.4GHz radios
4Supports Dual-5GHz
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Auto-Planner v2.04Supports multiple high capacity areas
4Completely re-written AP placement algorithm
4Completely re-written channel allocation algorithm
4More accurate capacity calculations
4Easier to use
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How does it work?
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What else in 9.0?
4This
4Comes out of beta.
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Thank You!
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