AirMagnet Redefines the Wireless Site Survey; Survey 4.0 Release Breaks New Ground in Survey Accuracy and Efficiency by Combining Active and Predictive Site Surveys With the New AirMagnet Planner Solution.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- AirMagnet Inc., the leader in wireless network assurance, released AirMagnet Planner, the most significant enhancement ever to the AirMagnet Survey product line. AirMagnet Planner is a RF planning and wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area design solution that offers unrivaled cost advantages and ease of use. This new solution is available as a stand-alone product or as a fully integrated option for the newly released AirMagnet Survey 4.0. The AirMagnet Planner enables enterprises to design indoor Wi-Fi networks See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. using predictive maps that analyze Wi-Fi performance and interference based on the building's architectural environment and material structures, such as walls, cubicles cubicles individual cow bed spaces separated by half height and half length partitions. Usually located in loose housing cow accommodation in which the cow is free to wander at will. and obstructions. The integrated AirMagnet Planner and Survey 4.0 solution not only predicts the ideal quantity, placement and configuration of access point (APs), but also validate those settings in a live RF environment using active end-user performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. , such as actual connection speed and packet metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . No other solution combines state-of-the-art predictive modeling with real-world performance data. "No matter what method is used to predict how RF signals and APs will behave, the real-world Wi-Fi environment will always surprise you," said Greg Yates, executive vice president of AirMagnet. "Other RF-design and site-planning solutions on the market today rely solely on predictive analysis--they don't offer a way to test end-user performance once the site is deployed--which is why they have so many sophisticated, time-consuming components to configure. AirMagnet simplifies the design phase for end users by offering all the critical features to plan sufficiently and then tweak To make minor adjustments in an electronic system or in a software program in order to improve performance. See calibrate. 1. tweak - To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. accordingly." Corporate campuses with numerous buildings of similar structure and layout can use AirMagnet Planner and Survey to create an ideal network design based on real-world results from a single building. "The AirMagnet Planner enables our end-user customers to both predict and actualize the performance of their wireless LANs, which enables them to deploy or expand their infrastructure more rapidly," said Damian Shonko, vice president of mobility solutions at Denali Advanced Integrations. "We're excited that AirMagnet continues to deliver solutions that add value to enterprise-wide Wi-Fi deployments." The new Survey 4.0 release offers other key enhancements, including an integration with Google Earth A 3D mapping program from Google that covers the entire globe from satellite images. Requiring a download for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops, a street address can be searched, and the views can be zoomed down to the individual building all the way up to a satellite's view of the globe. to enhance outdoor Wi-Fi site surveys. Users can overlay (1) A preprinted, precut form placed over a screen, key or tablet for identification purposes. See keyboard template. (2) A program segment called into memory when required. Survey results onto Google Earth maps to pinpoint areas of interference and noise, while taking advantage of Google Earth's GPS accuracy and flexibility to zoom in to any level of detail. This makes AirMagnet Survey uniquely suited for city-wide Wi-Fi networks--like in Mountain View, Calif., where Google is creating a municipal wireless network covering the entire city and delivering free Internet access See how to access the Internet. to residents and visitors--which increasingly require scientific outdoor site planning Site planning in landscape architecture and architecture refers to the organizational stage of the landscape design process. It involves the organization of land use zoning, access, circulation, privacy, security, shelter, land drainage, and other factors. and surveying. Additional new features of AirMagnet Survey 4.0 include: --Spectrum Interference Alarms and Analysis take Survey's integration with Spectrum Analyzer A hardware device or software used to examine the frequency and power components of a signal. It provides more information than an oscilloscope, because it can display the signals over a range of frequencies. a step further by providing alarms when spectral interference is detected and identifying specific sources of interference, enabling surveyors to account for interference at the planning stage, before it affects network performance. --Roaming Control makes AirMagnet's unique method of active surveying even more active, by allowing the user to set a standard roam rate during a site survey to more accurately recreate the true end-user experience, rather than base planning on the signal strength, connection speed and number of packet retries re·tries v. Third person singular present tense of retry. experienced by a single wireless machine. --Integration with AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer enables site surveys conducted using Laptop Analyzer's survey tool to be imported into Survey. Field agents armed with Laptop Analyzer can use it to conduct live surveys and send them back to Survey at a central location for further analysis. Additional new features of AirMagnet Planner include: --Access Point Overlap shows on the map display where APs on the same channel overlap above a user-defined threshold. Users can also investigate an AP in detail to plot the total combined interference to a particular access point from all other APs. --Advanced Network Simulation In computer network research, network simulation is a technique where a program models the behavior of a network either by calculating the interaction between the different network entities (hosts/routers, data links, packets, etc) using mathematical formulas, or actually capturing provides full control of the proposed wireless infrastructure. Users can add APs to any location and experiment to find the ideal AP placement for the environment with independent settings for both 802.11a and 802.11b/g radios. Users can predict performance based on changes to the AP channel, IP address, transmit power, antenna type, orientation and height. --Predicted Wi-Fi Environment Report and Bill of Materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. can be automatically generated upon completion of the site survey. The report outlines the predicted Wi-Fi landscape, including areas of dead spots Dead spots are abnormally fast decays of the fundamental tone on stringed instruments and are caused by a damping of the string's vibrations at a given note, due to energy transfer from the string to the instrument body. and interference, how many APs to deploy and how to configure APs for optimal coverage and performance. Pricing and Availability Survey 4.0 is now available and priced at $1,995 for the standard edition and $3,695 for Survey PRO in the U.S. AirMagnet Planner is available for $1,000 as an addition for Survey customers, or for $2,000 as a stand-alone product. For additional information, contact AirMagnet at 408-400-0200 or on the Web at http://www.airmagnet.com/company/contact_airmagnet.php?type=sales. About AirMagnet Inc. AirMagnet Inc. is the world leader in wireless network assurance. The company's wireless LAN monitoring and analysis products--available in handheld, laptop and enterprise configurations--are designed to provide an integrated set of solutions to plan, set up, secure and manage wireless networks. AirMagnet customers--more than 5,000 organizations worldwide in industries as diverse as manufacturing, financial, retail, service, health care, utility, transportation, education, government and technology--include 75 of the U.S. Fortune 100. AirMagnet solutions solve Wi-Fi connection problems, block unauthorized access, simplify site surveys and guarantee WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network performance, compliance and security. Additional information about AirMagnet and its products is available at www.airmagnet.com. (C)2006 AirMagnet Inc. All rights reserved. AirMagnet(R) and AirWISE(R) are registered trademarks, and the AirMagnet logo is a trademark, of AirMagnet Inc. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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