Ekahau WiFi Tools
Software & Hardware solutions for WiFi experts
Ekahau are one of the world leaders in Wireless network products, producing a range of survey and troubleshooting tools to help you design and optimise your wireless network.
Wireless Design Tools
Whether designing a new WiFi solution, or plugging holes in your existing network, Ekahau enables you to create a successful predictive plan. You’ll need floor plans and information on the building materials, but you can specify key design metrics automatically, such as:
- Minimum signal coverage
- Secondary signal coverage levels for resilience
- Support of key business services ranging from Warehouse operations through to Unified Communication solutions
- Access Points and antennas – there are hundreds to choose from
Wireless Survey Capability
Most organisations have some sort of WiFi in place, but lately its become an essential, to have fast, reliable service everywhere in the building. Troubleshooting can be tricky, hence performing a survey, to show a heat map view of the wireless coverage is a very important part of understanding how your current WiFi is operating. You’ll get valuable data on areas that need to be addressed, such as:
- Holes or gaps in the signal coverage
- Interference issues
- Channel and power conflicts
- Unknown and unwanted SSIDs
Spectrum Analyser
When used with the optional Sidekick hardware, Ekahau can be used to carry out a full spectrum analyser survey. The aim of these surveys is to pick up both WiFi and non-WiFi devices that are using the same frequency ranges, and potentially impacting your network’s efficiently, or worse still, paralysing it entirely. Typical sources of interference that can be identified range from:
- Weather radar systems
- Microwave ovens
- Cordless phones
- Wireless cameras and speakers
- Door entry systems
Ekahau Sidekick
The Ekahau Sidekick is a small hardware device that’s used in connection with a laptop/tablet/smart phone to bring consistency and accuracy to the gathering of wireless data. Performing a site survey using just the standard WiFi card in your mobile device will work but the Sidekick enables much more accuracy and greater detail for analysis and troubleshooting. When investigating wireless network issues, the multiple antennas within Sidekick enable you to uncover the hidden and unwanted things too. Sidekick can also perform the spectrum analysis functions, whilst you are simultaneously surveying, saving you time and effort, and yet gaining more data.
Professional Services – we can help you understand what is going on
The main challenges in looking at wireless survey information is the vast range of information that is now available to you from your Ekahau tools. The results can be looked at in many different ways, some will be key to your deployment and some will not. Unless you are using the tools everyday it can become overwhelming or even confusing. At Full Control Networks we have the experience of “decoding” these reports and telling you what they all mean and helping you make the right decisions for your WiFi. Another challenge with wireless is that all devices see and behave differently, so even when you have a solid WiFi design in place, different devices will behave differently and understanding this can be challenging. Full Control Networks can help you understand these behaviours and advise how to make these devices behave more efficiently, or what you can expect to see from the key devices on your WiFi network. The range of services from Full Control Networks includes:
- Surveying existing WiFi networks with recommendations for improved performance
- Planning new WiFi deployments
- Optimising WiFi configurations
- Helping you get the most speed from your WiFi network
- Saving you money from flooded AP designs
- Optimising designs for different end devices
To arrange a discussion or demo with one of our engineers on the Ekahau range or to request a quotation call us now on 01677 428700 or email [email protected]. Alternatively, you can see it on Ekahau’s website.
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