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Today's wireless service providers, managed-service providers, and network infrastructure vendors all consider site surveys a mandatory and vital part of the wireless LAN deployment process. AirMagnet has addressed these requirements with the industry's most accurate WLAN planning solution. AirMagnet Survey stands apart from other market solutions by enabling enterprises to collect live signal, packet and spectrum data during their site surveys. This allows enterprises to simulate and measure network performance in the most scientific way possible—with the most accurate depiction of a real-world user experience-which ultimately results in a better performing network.

Perform Active and Passive Surveys

During a passive site survey, AirMagnet Survey automatically records RF data from all APs and stations in the area. This produces an excellent overview of the entire wireless environment including sources of noise and any wireless signals from neighboring networks. During an active site survey, AirMagnet Survey associates itself to a specific AP and exchanges data to emulate an end-user. This enables you to map out exactly how real-world clients will perform at various locations taking into account the multipath at that location in terms of connection data rates, retry rates and packet loss. Similar to the Active Survey, users can perform an Iperf Survey —open-source software tool for performance measurement— to measure real-world uplink and downlink network performance.

At the end of each site survey, you will name and save your survey data for later analysis and planning, including locating stations on the map.

View Combined Survey Results

When it's time to analyze results, AirMagnet Survey can automatically merge any number of your active and passive site surveys to provide the most accurate, data-rich analysis possible. A dynamic map view gives you instant insight to the potential performance of your network. In one click, you can change the map view to display signal, noise, frame speeds, retry rates, packet loss, or any of the 802.11n coverage maps. Two filtering modes enable you to view and analyze site data by channel or SSID. You can also filter by individual AP selections to focus your view.

Perform Accurate Network Simulations

The live data collected from your active and passive surveys enables you to simulate and measure network performance in the most scientific way possible—with the most accurate depiction of a real—world user experience. You can relocate APs on the map and adjust AP configurations—such as Power, Channel, SSID, and Noise Floor—to simulate changes in the network, which appear on your refreshed map. Drill-down on specific APs to analyze performance statistics, then tweak and adjust your simulations until you achieve optimal settings. You can also take an existing survey and view exactly how another adapter would view the survey environment. The WLAN Throughput Simulator tool helps optimize the network deployment by capturing the existing infrastructure environment and calculates the network throughput and overhead under user-specified conditions. It also allows the user to simulate the addition of new APs or stations with user specified capabilities and view their impact on network performance.

Note: 802.11n device simulation and the WLAN Throughput Simulator tool are available in Survey PRO ONLY.

Visualize Survey Differences

AirMagnet Survey's Diff View feature allows side-by-side visualizing of differences between two separate surveys. View how a site's wireless environment has changed over time. Likewise, users can use this feature to quickly compare Planner results with actual Survey results.

Maximize Security

Along with meeting performance requirements, AirMagnet Survey can be used to monitor for RF spillage outside the corporate building. This spillage should be kept to a minimum, unless service is to be provided in the parking lot or an outside area. Survey can also locate unauthorized stations detected during a survey on a floor map.

Perform Active Network Test

Use AirMagnet Survey's suite of utilities to actively test the network and pinpoint problems, including a signal test tool to identify potential multipath interference, ping, DHCP tools, and a library of wireless calculators.

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