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Designing Cisco Wireless Networks: Wireless Site Surveys

by Andrew Crouthamel

Ensure your wireless network is properly designed with a site survey. In this course, learn how to create a site survey while adhering to business requirements.

What you'll learn

Good network engineers need to understand how to create a wireless infrastructure without causing problems to the existing infrastructure. In this course, Designing Cisco Wireless Networks: Wireless Site Surveys, you'll explore site survey tools and methods, such as active, passive, and predictive surveys. First, you'll learn about the tools and types of site surveys you can perform. Next, you'll understand the details of each type, how they differ from each other, and when you would use each one. Finally, you'll create a predictive site survey for the warehouse at Globomantics. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of wireless site surveys needed for designing modern wireless networks. Software required: none.

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About the author

Andrew started out in IT working an Assistant Computer Technician position for a school district, blowing dust out of lab computers all summer; barely making enough to pay for gas to get to work. Since then, he has worked for a number of different organizations, some of them well known. He knows what it is like to start out in IT from the bottom up and uses this experience to help students learn the best way possible, offering some nuggets of wisdom on real-world IT along the way.

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