Creating A New Campus - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

"Automatically Provisioning APs onto a Floor Plan" on page 287
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"Tweaking a Planning Region" on page 288
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"Printing a Bill of Materials Report" on page 289
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Creating a New Campus

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.
To create and place your campus, follow these steps:
1. Navigate to VisualRF > Floor Plans.
2. Select the Add Campus button, located above the floor plan. 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.
Figure 226 Create New Campus window
4. Select OK to save. You will see a new Campus icon appear on the campus canvas. (AMP ships with a default
campus and building.)
5. Add appropriate network geographical background or upload a personalized image by right-clicking on the
background.
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6. Drag the new Campus icon to the appropriate location on the map background.
NOTE: QuickView automatically saves background map images, campus locations, building locations, and building types
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226, appears.
Set Map - allows you to browse with the included maps.
Custom - launches the image upload wizard documented in "Importing a Floor Plan" on
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page 283.