Why are site surveys important?

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Explore the reasons you may need a site survey.

Patchy signals, slow connections, and compromised security are all too common in business environments from manufacturing and warehouses to office buildings. You and your team are frustrated at this slow productivity. As you start to explore improving your facility’s wireless network or starting from scratch, you might come across site surveys, and wonder: why are site surveys important?

Site surveys provide invaluable insight on a facility’s challenges, the infrastructure of a current network, and a deep analysis of a network’s performance from wireless professionals. Survey deliverables include heat map visualizations, access point location diagrams, engineering observations, recommendations and photos.

Site surveys can save your business from productivity headaches.

1. Reveal Areas of Hardware Improvement

Installing access points, such as the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise OmniAccess series, without optimized wireless performance in mind could be damaging to your operations. You can avoid these problems by having network gurus perform a site survey before any hardware is installed. Protecting the productivity of your business can be as simple as finding dead spots in coverage. Wireless experts come onsite and perform a site survey to identify exactly where your connection is lacking in both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands.

In addition to access points, it is important to verify the current networking infrastructure and network cabinets with a network closet audit. The wireless installation team will walk through and verify any and all network closet locations such as a server room or intermediate distribution frame (IDF). An organized and optimized rack setup will make it easy to make changes in the future and identify problems that could arise.

2. Identify Obstacles in the Environment

You might notice an area of your facility where you have difficulty connecting your mobile device to the network. This could be because of multiple reasons, including but not limited to columns, metal objects, or walls. Network professionals can determine signal propagation as well as any potential obstructions to avoid dead spots altogether. Your wireless network would then be designed around the obstacles that cannot be moved. Proper antenna placement, channel assignments, and access point distribution all play a major role in solving this problem.

3. Reduce Access Point Overuse

A common error and sign of poor planning occurs when a network is set up without consideration for the volume of traffic that will utilize any one access point. Too many access points are a waste of resources. Too few and your users are complaining of poor access speeds. . Randomly placed access points are a problem for many businesses, so they end up with constant connection problems or spending more money than is necessary.

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Long-standing partnerships with hardware vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) ensure that your wireless installation provider is getting the best deal on hardware.

Through a managed IT service provider revealing areas of hardware improvement, identifying obstacles in your environment, and reducing access point overuse, your facility will experience optimized speed and coverage without overspending.

Network Zen has you covered by catering to your needs and requirements with the use of these site surveys. Our wireless gurus encompass the qualities to create and implement an optimized wireless network for any facility. With a proven track record, 10 years of experience as a company, all of the proper certifications, and ability to travel to you, you’ll trust you are in the right hands.

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