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Wireless Network Survey
Get your WiFi designed by the gurus who know your tough and critical environments best. WiFi installed by the "other guys'“ will leave you hanging with bills to pay. At Network Zen, people come first, and that means our customers and their needs come first.
WiFi design and installation?
We do both.
Our team creates complete solutions that are designed to grow with your business, not to create long-term hardware maintenance issues. We utilize multiple access point survey types to get our eyes on the problem and design a WiFi installation that accounts for your environment's challenges and variables. Network Zen's WiFi solutions will save you money and grant peace of mind.
Optimized wireless starts
with a site survey.
When your current wireless network isn’t meeting your needs, you may find yourself needing a site survey and wondering: what is a wireless site survey? Network Zen site survey guru, Mike Fuerte, has the answer.
See how we can improve your WiFi with a wireless network survey
What are the types of site surveys?
• Greenfield: Starting with a blank canvas or total replacement of existing. It does not take into account any existing AP locations for repurposing.
• Hybrid: A combination of active and predictive designs. A senior engineer completes the design onsite but does not physically stand and test each individual AP.
• Predictive: Utilizes floor plans of a facility to virtually recreate it remotely with a survey tool to estimate AP performance. We do not recommend this type of survey because it can be inaccurate without visiting the site location.
• Assessment: Onsite survey of the existing performance of a currently deployed wireless infrastructure to determine remediation steps needed to resolve issues or expand upon the existing wireless deployment.
What might a wireless network survey include?
• Senior engineer to complete the site survey, test each individual access point, identify possible risk scenarios, and use test radios to measure network performance.
• Access point detail listing showing AP type, antenna, mounting height, mounting options, IDF destinations, and anticipated cable lengths required.
• Customized heat map to visually depict areas of RF/WiFi coverage on both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands
What are the steps to completing a wireless network survey?
1. Receive the most recent floor plan for the facility and observe existing space.
2. Provide guidance on the desired outcome, performance, pain points, and goals for the wireless network.
3. If onsite, the engineer goes to the facility for the physical audit of the environment to test wireless or RF performance throughout the facility and identify potential risk.
4. Submit deliverable content, such as engineering notes, heat maps, access point placement maps, photos, etc.
5. Discuss next steps, timeline, and how the services will be deployed.
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Extreme Networks offers WiFi infrastructure solutions that are built on a foundation of products with unlimited scalability, reliability and security providing the industry’s most extensive suite of access points.
No matter which Extreme Networks access point you choose, you will experience next-generation service that eliminates single points of failure, can effortlessly grow from a single access point to hundreds of thousands, and lets you easily manage and support thousands of access points from a centralized platform.
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Network Zen has been critical in helping us keep our technology, scanning, and security up to date. Because of that, we're able to ship our customer's products on time, make sure that we're always up and running, and ensure our customers are getting their products.
We wanted to update our processes and technologies but we had difficulties with our new WiFi solution and issues connecting our handhelds. We had multiple vendors from WiFi installation companies to managed security services and infrastructure, Network Zen consolidated that for us. They took care of us.
Network Zen has been a trusted advisor on many levels. From manufacturing equipment, scanning, and Zebra printers to networking and WiFi solutions. They have always been there. Their culture fits well with our culture of mutual respect, honor, integrity, they understand us.
"Network Zen’s team went above and beyond to help me resolve a tough network issue. They were very easy to work with, very knowledgeable, dedicated, and truly understood what was at stake. I highly recommend Network Zen."
Network Zen has been critical in helping us keep our scanning and security technology up and running. Because of that we’re always up and running and customers are getting their products when they are supposed to.
Why Choose Network Zen?
Dedicated and accessible point of contact engineer.
When you work with Network Zen your single-point-of-contact will be one of our engineering gurus, who you can contact by phone, email, or text. It’s our way of saying that we value your time as much as we do our own!
Small but nimble with Fortune 500 resources.
We believe that personalized attention matters. To that end, Network Zen has purposely remained “lean and mean” by eliminating unnecessary, time-sucking rules & costly bells-and-whistles. Yes, we have the same Fortune-500 resources as our big competitors – we just use them more wisely.
One-stop, specialized expertise for your entire network needs.
Our seasoned engineering gurus can design, implement, support, and repair mobility, wireless, server, desktop, firewall, and switch issues from leading manufacturers and in all environments.