Computing And Placing Aps For A Coverage Area - Nortel 2350 Reference Manual

Computing and Placing APs for a Coverage Area

When you perform Compute and Place for one or more coverage areas, WMS automatically calculates the number of
APs you require, based on coverage area information, and also places them in appropriate locations on the floor.
WMS assumes that APs are mounted on the ceiling and takes the ceiling height into account when placing APs. WMS
assumes that coverage is required down to 3 feet above the floor (the average height of a user's desk). By default, WMS
assumes that you want to directly connect the APs to 2360 switches and that you do not want redundant AP connections
for backup. You can change these design constraints.
By default, especially when you are performing Compute and Place for a coverage area for the first time, the results do
not account for existing APs. Manual overrides of the AP results are not taken into account if you perform Compute and
Place again.
If you are modifying an existing coverage area with deployed APs or if you need to preserve manual changes made to
the current configuration, you can lock the APs. Locked APs cannot be moved or deleted during the Compute and Place
process.
You perform the following tasks to compute and place APs:
1
Specify design constraints. (See
2
Compute and place APs. (See
3
Review coverage area computation progress. (See
To specify design constraints
1
Display the floor plan in the Content panel.
2
In the Task List panel, click Floor.
3
Under Edit Floor, click Constraints. The Manage Constraints dialog is displayed.
"To specify design constraints" (page
"To compute and place APs" (page
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"To review coverage area computation" (page 141).)