Outdoor Wireless Planning Tool
This online tool can be used to plan and visualize outdoor wireless networks by plotting device locations and radio frequency (RF) propagation coverage on mapping tools. Radio frequency propagation visualization can be viewed as contours on Google Maps or 3D RF models in Google Earth.
The tool is currently beta software and is [...]

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Single Access Point and Multiple SSIDs
It is possible for a single access point to have multiple SSIDs. This capability is more common in enterprise class access points and is usually implemented so that each SSID has a separate BSSID (MAC address). Each SSID can be hidden or in clear text or a combination. Some vendors [...]

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Enterprise Wireless LAN Design
Designing an enterprise class WLAN is not a trivial task. If designed incorrectly the WLAN will have coverage gaps and capacity issues. Outlined below are steps that should be followed when designing an enterprise class WLAN.

Requirements Gathering
One of the biggest mistakes made by IT professionals is to focus on WLAN signal coverage [...]

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In a previous post, a well known non-overlapping channel deployment configuration for 2.4 GHz 802.11 networks was outlined.
Another option is to use a four-channel deployment scheme, either 1, 4, 7, 11 or 1, 4, 8, 11. Both of these scenarios are typically called slighty overlapping channel configurations, and are suppose to increase capacity in 2.4 [...]

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An important component of wireless network performance optimization is channel planning.
IEEE defines 14 channels available for use in 802.11b and 802.11g wireless networks. In the US and Canada the available channels for use are 1 (2.401 GHz) through 11 (2.448 GHz). Outside the US channels 13 and 14 are also available for use. Each of [...]

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