WiTuners for WLAN – What’s So Unique about it – part 2
Big Potential Problems
OK, use the NMS to evaluate performance and then tune the APs in some fashion, manually or otherwise. A change is made and the performance either improves or degrades. Hopefully, your IT person has enough real-world experience that it improves more often than not and you’re pretty happy. But not always.
There are huge potential problems looming in any WLAN environment. Dynamic traffic (like in a stock exchange or conference hall), interference sources that come and go, and propagation anomalies (such as cross traffic interference through an atrium) can wreak havoc on throughput and QoS. What you need is an estimate of how such effects will interact with your WLAN. Then you can choose a strategy to mitigate the problems and move the WLAN toward a more optimal state.
Yes, this is a real challenge hanging over the WLAN industry, but in the meantime also provides an excellent opportunity for innovation and huge potentially for big performance gains. WiTuners leads the charge with its WiTuners Advanced Wi-Fi Tuning Technology which provides an innovative solution for the issues.
What is the Benefit?
WiTuners solution ensures that the tuning process does not degrade the real world network. Changes are audited and performance measures are evaluated before tuning in the real world is performed. This process is entirely hands-off, so it is timely and low cost in terms of labor.
The value to the customer is immediate and of great value. Students streaming into a lecture hall will no longer bring the WLAN to its knees. Prompt adaptations to traffic and propagation effects are guaranteed because the WiTuners network is continuing to mimic the real world network in anticipation of tuning toward optimization.
And best of all, your costs to own and maintain a WLAN are kept low. You’ll not be as tempted to blindly throw hardware at your WLAN problems and you won’t have to keep a WLAN specialist on call to fix glitches in the system.
What Confidence do we have in the Process?
Experience is a great teacher, and WiTuners exhibits it in spades. The developers have implemented a comprehensive suite of elements into the application, based on physical, electromagnetic, media access, and network control principles.
The choices by which the user captures the WLAN design indicate the depth of understanding that contributes to the accuracy of WiTuners technology. For example, APs are defined by not only the RF and system definitions, but also the 3D antenna characteristics and sensitivities.
Likewise, traffic characterization include data, voice, and video patterns as well as density distributions through the deployment region. The deployment region itself can be specified by a wide variety of propagation characterization, including outdoor, industrial, and office scenarios (all customizable by the user, if desired).
Finally, the deployment map itself is the most comprehensive in the industry. Multi-floors completely characterize AP-to-AP interactions when intervening floors (or no floors, such as in an atrium) impose real-world interference on the WiTuners network.
Floors, walls, and architectural obstructions define the propagation (and interference) attributes of the Wi-Fi environment. Realistic desired as well as interfering effects are all captured for the WiTuners Advanced Wi-Fi Tuning Technology.
Conclusion
Hence, you have seen how unique WiTuners is:
-Easy deployment planning and comprehensive characterization of the WLAN
-True performance based optimization
-Automated, real time, hands-off adaptive tuning of the network
-Automatic verification to preclude degradation to the WLAN
Its approach results in a true performance based optimization in real time. It is based on a comprehensive and realistic characterization of the WLAN and its traffic. The solutions are based on physical descriptions of the WLAN environment and verification ensures that the WLAN will not be degraded as tuning is performed.
If you want to find out more about this technology and WLAN Auditing please visit the Wituners site.
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