Chapter 3 Planning And Provisioning; Creating Campuses And Buildings; Campus Creation - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

VisualRF provides the capability to plan campuses, buildings, floors, and access points prior to the actual access
point deployment. The following procedure describes the workflow:
"Creating Campuses and Buildings" on page 33
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"Importing a Floor Plan" on page 36
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"Provisioning Existing Access Points onto the Floor Plan" on page 40
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"Automatically Provisioning APs onto a Floor Plan" on page 40
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"Tweaking a Planning Region" on page 42
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"Printing a Bill of Materials Report" on page 43
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"Exporting a Campus" on page 44
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Creating Campuses and Buildings

Floors are associated with a building and buildings are associated with a campus. In order to create a new floor,
you must first create a campus and building.

Campus Creation

To create and place your campus, follow these steps:
1. Navigate to VisualRF > Floor Plans.
2. Right-click the map on the page and select New Campus. The Create New Campus window, illustrated in
Figure
3. Enter the following campus information:
Name of the campus
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User Transmit Power - used in auto placement of access points onto floors within this campus. The range
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is 30mW to 100mW.
Desired Data Rate - used in auto placement of access points onto floors within this campus. The range is 6
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to 200 mbps.
NOTE: Buildings and floors inherit transmit power and data rate from the campus.
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