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Wi-Fi Site Surveys: Passive, Active, Survey-on-A-Stick

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:17:30 +0000

Wi-Fi Site Surveys: Passive, Active, Survey-on-A-Stick

The lifecycle of a wireless network is the process of designing, validating, optimizing, and troubleshooting that network. Whether upgrading an existing wireless network or designing a greenfield network, you have to account for capacity requirements or potential interferences in the environment. Before you deploy your new or upgraded network infrastructure, you need to ensure you have real-world data to provide insight and insurance for your wireless project. We’ve discussed Wi-Fi site surveys in a couple of Webinar. However, not all site surveys are equal. There’s three common types of on-site surveys that can be performed.

Passive site surveys

Performed to get an understanding of the RF characteristics on-site. By RF characteristics I mean Wi-Fi signal strengths, noise levels, SNR (signal-to-noise ratio), and the like. The reason the site surveys are called “passive” is that your Wi-Fi network adapter is pretty much just listening to packets when performing passive site surveys. OK, the NIC might send some probes out, but that’s about it.

Active Site Surveys

Provide more insight on the network connectivity and/or performance. Things like packet loss, packet delay, and access points you’ve associated with, can be measured during active site surveys. As the name suggests, with active surveys the Wi-Fi adapter is receiving AND sending packets to figure out what’s truly going on with the network.

What is an AP on a Stick survey?

An AP on a Stick (APoS) survey is a method of temporarily staging APs at deployment height utilizing a tripod or other mounting options in order to validate your predictive design before a full site deployment. APoS surveys identify the RF signal propagation characteristics of the environment while providing additional confidence your proposed design will work as planned, reducing the need for costly AP location changes, and validating you have the correct number of APs in your design.

Brocent Won IT Relocation Project | Shanghai China

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 07:18:33 +0000

BROCENT wins the IT Relocation Project, that supports clients to survey, contingency plan, move, stack &rack and finally resume all IT infrastructure in the new office. 9 Hours with 12 experienced IT engineers' effort completes the delivery of the whole relocation service, 17:30 till 2:30 A.M in the second day.

In such reloaction project, usually it involves multiple suppliers to take care of different scope of work, i.e., Furniture, Cabling, Office Security, IT Infra &Application and so on. Perform a thorough survey becomes the utmost crucial, that makes clear of Roles &Responsibility for the whole team to follow till the completion of task execution, which covers the fundamental IT inventory, system &network diagram, and the co-relationship to the applications with its unique maintenance window.

A short but precise execution plan simplifies the process of disconnection, packing, protection and moving, that right person is monitoring and validating the accuracy and integrity of all IT assets. A particular attention shall be on the coordination with BMO, that makes sure packed devices &materials can be moved down and up within the expected timeframe.

We value those effort by all interest parties likely cabling, security and furniture etc, because everyone is working in the same space and time windows, as-of-it, more important things for Brocent PM is to keep earlier and proactive communication with client's project managers that the relocation team can move all devices &facilities into the new computer room and/or workspace punctually on time, with that, the network &system engineer can efficiently work to resume the network and system.

Yet, the network connectivity and system functional test is the last but not the final step to examine and prove that end users can properly use the IT infrastructure in this nice &new office.

Congratulation to the team. Awesome work done.

Perks of Microsoft Open Value Subscription Licensing

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 04:43:48 +0000

Technology is changing at an incredible pace and staying up to date is becoming more and more important in our competitive business world. Considering this, does it make sense for a business to spend a huge outlay of time and money every few years just to keep up? And once the upgrade is installed, how to you make sure the staff understand how to take full advantage of the new features? Would it make more sense to approach software as a subscription – spreading payments over the life of the software’s useful life – with rights to upgrade as new versions come out? Subscription licensing has become the primary choice for the large majority of our clients. It takes the responsibility of staying on top of software updates off the plate of upper management and makes it a recurring task of the IT department – an operational item, rather than a capital item that is usually tied to hardware upgrades or replacements. There are many benefits to this software model and it the interest of time, I have provided bullets outlining the advantages as listed by Microsoft below: ” Low Cost Option As a rental agreement OVS is a cost effective licensing agreement for small and medium sized companies. Access to Latest Versions of Microsoft Products OVS customers can automatically use the latest software available from Microsoft, ensuring they get the benefits of the best Microsoft has to offer. Pay According to Use Customers only pay for software actually installed. Each year, customers can increase and decrease the number of desktops as need be to support their business requirements...