Naming cable notes in Ekahau is quite a manual process. You have to enter your note description at the end of drawing the cable note on the map. What I like to do on my projects is rename the cable notes in the following way: "IDF-1 to AP01". We then re-use this description in our [...]
In this article, we will show how to export the project note pictures into our template reports. It seems like it would be something easy but it is actually a little tricky. PROJECT NOTES IN EKAHAU In Ekahau Pro, you can add project notes to your project by navigating to Project / Project Notes menu: [...]
I wanted to play around and see how I could automate the process of preparing a Cisco AP for an APoS site survey. So I decided to try it out on a Catalyst 9120 running IOS-XE. In this article, I will explain how to use the script. You can find the script on my GitHub: [...]
In this article, we will talk about the important of assessing the Wi-Fi in a warehouse and talk about specificities brought by these type of environments. WHAT MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGING? The main challenge of a warehouse is the fact that the environment can be moving a lot. Here is a list of changes I [...]
When I perform Wi-Fi validation or Wi-Fi assessments, I like to take pictures of the access points and document it later. I also save these pictures and provide them to the customer. Lately, with the use of the Ekahau survey application on iPad, I have been attaching these pictures to an AP object on my [...]
This is a video showing you how to retrieve the scale of a floor plan in AutoCAD in order to scale it in Ekahau. This video follows the one we published to explain how to export PDF floor plans from AutoCAD: www.semfionetworks.com/blog/preparing-floor-plans-for-ekahau-in-autocad
Floor plans are very important for us WLAN professionals. We need them to do our designs and surveys. Sometimes, the quality of the floor plans we receive from our customer (when we receive some) is not always the best. Just like a baker needs quality flour to produce good bread. As Wi-Fi Engineers we need [...]
This year WLPC was another great event. If you missed it and would like a recap, listen to the ClearToSend podcast episode #111 Rowell and I recorded. Glenn Cate and I proposed a talk on Warehouse Wi-Fi and we were fortunate enough to be selected as one of the main sessions. Here is how our presentation turned [...]
This article will explains how to convert a CAPWAP AP to a Cisco Mobility Express AP. The AP model used as an example in this article is a Cisco Aironet 2802i. Note: if you are planning on doing an AP-on-a-stick site survey with a Cisco Aironet 2800 or 3800, you will have to convert the [...]
This article explains how to configure a Cisco Mobility Express AP for an AP-on-a-Stick site survey using the CLI (Command Line Interface). It is also possible to do it using the provisioning SSID. Right before configuring the AP for the survey, I had to convert it from the CAPWAP mode to the Mobility Express mode. [...]
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