What’s New

Ekahau Site Survey 7

Jussi Kiviniemi, Vice President, Wi-Fi ToolsTwitter: @jussikiviniemiMail: jussi@ekahau.com

Highlights

• Multi-Adapter support allows faster site surveys

• 2.4 or 5GHz visualization is now much easier

• Merging projects now merging within the same floor

• Signal difference heatmap shows what’s changed between surveys

• Channel Planner for those of you still not relying on Auto-RF

• New channel configuration that supports touch screen

• Undo & Redo buttons help when using touch screen

• Faster opening & visualization of huge projects 35-90% difference

Multi-Adapter Support

• Survey with up to 3 external USB NICs

• Survey with up to 10 Wi-Fi tags

• Survey with up to 3 NICs and 10 tags simultaneously

• User benefit #1: Faster site surveys

• User benefit #2: Faster RTLS tag surveys

• User benefit #3: Simultanous site survey & RLTS tag surveys

Multi-Adapter Support / Refreshed UI

Is the network working OK?(RSSI, SNR, Data rate, overlap)

Active survey (integrated NIC)

Passive survey3 external NICs:One on 2.42 on 5GHz

Configure scanned channels for passive survey

Launch spectrum analysis

New NIC channel configuration

• Supports multi-adapter & multi-tag• Works better with touch screen

Easier 2.4 / 5GHz selection

• Helps visualizing only one band or the other

Click on either band to enable / disable

Improved Project File Merge

• Has to do with several surveyors working at the same time

• Previously, surveyors had to work on different maps

• Now, surveyors can work on the same map simultaneously

Signal Difference Heatmap

• Shows what has changed in the network over time• Signal strength differences• Interference differences• Overlap differences

• Easily spot network problems and other changes• Can also shows differences between survey devices

Assign the surveys to be compared as “Secondary”

Select difference in Signal Strength, SNR, or # of APs.

Blue = weaker signal in Secondary survey(Broken radio? Tx power reduced? AP removed?)

Red = stronger signal in Secondary survey(AP added? Rogue AP? Tx power increased?)

Green = similar signal during both surveys

Channel Planner

• Previously, channels were planned only for simulated APs, only when using Auto AP placement (Auto-Planner)

• Now, channels can be planned for simulated or measured network, at any time

Undo & Redo buttons

• Helps in touch screen use

Huge projects: Faster opening & visualization

• Up to 90% faster opening of projects• Up to 35% faster drawing of

heatmaps

Thanks to our friends at Cisco for motivating us to optimize the code ;)

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