Friday 10 February 2012

The Importance of Site Survey (for LAN)


The Importance of Site Survey (LAN)

The site survey’s primary objective is to ensure mobile workers – the wireless LAN’s “clients”– will not find that the radio frequency signal drops out as they move around the facility, thus becoming disconnected from the host device or other mobile computing devices and their work -- and potentially causing data loss.

The survey also helps customers to clearly understand the impact of the addition of wireless local area networking on their overall networking and system requirements. Important questions it will answer include: Does the existing backbone have adequate bandwidth to handle the overlaid wireless network? In a cellular architecture, are there sufficient resources to include wireless capabilities?

Performing a site survey therefore provides a realistic understanding of the wireless installation. It determines whether a site has unusually high interference issues to resolve, or capacity is greater than anticipated. And an accurate site survey enables accurate quotes to guide financial decision making.

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  2. This is one technology that I would love to be able to use for myself. It’s definitely a cut above the rest and I can’t wait until my provider has it. Your insight was what I needed. Thanks

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