Wi-Fi Design Q&A

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François Vergès

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Importance of Wi-Fi DesignWhy should it be done?

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.- Abraham Lincoln

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Importance of Wi-Fi Design

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What software do you use for heat mapping?

7*Ekahau Pro

What software do you use for heat mapping?

8*iBwave Wi-Fi

How do you decide the coverage area is high density?

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When you want to design for a new building and customer has no idea about capacity requirements, What would you consider as best guess for capacity?

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Why use external downtilt patch antennas when in Ekahau, the heat maps show the internal and external patterns to be virtually the same?

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How do you prevent WiFi and Bluetooth Interference?

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How much margin does my design have? What can I expect from my WLAN?

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When designing for voice over Wi-Fi, what strategies have worked for you to make sure voice traffic gets marked at wmm 6?

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Is Cisco’s default RRM Tx Power Threshold of -70dBm good enough for voice grade networks or is -67 a better best practice?

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Is Cisco’s default RRM Tx Power Threshold of -70dBm good enough for voice grade networks or is -67 a better best practice?

Have you run into interference with lighting such as halogen or any other type?

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What are the best practices for post deployment validation?

Which is the best practice to make a capacity plan?

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What are the steps to make a Wi-Fi design?

Yes.

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Will non-Wi-Fi6 clients see much, if any, performance enhancements with Wi-Fi6 APs?

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What considerations should be made for WiFi 6 and 2.4 interferences? Will WiFi 6 devices in 2.4 GHz be less susceptible to interference?

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Do you think 802.11ax cell sizes will be similar to existing 802.11ac designs?

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Yes.

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I don't see early adoption actually paying off because of legacy clients in my WLAN and surrounding my WLAN. What are your thoughts?

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