2012-125 IT - MXN for Installing Wireless Network

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right off your network with limits on how much bandwidth guests can gobble up. And then to identify specific wired ports —in those common areas where guests might be found —the library and conference rooms and lobbies, perhaps —and pin those to the Internet with rate limits, as well. Employees who want inside access on the wireless would get an encrypted key to use to access the internal wireless that would go in different directions, with different privileges. Employees who want wired access would attach to an employee port and also go in different directions. You could also have access points that served exclusively public areas —like that library —to only broadcast the guest SSID. Off security, now. We recommend that all wireless access points be installed with a fifteen -foot service loop to enable later minor relocations to compensate for building changes that change the RF propagation. I covered this earlier, but in lieu of an expensive and time - consuming RF survey that won't survive the movement of the first metal filing cabinet we just do a map spot to determine the access point locations, and remedy small inconsistencies by configuring tweaks in the wireless management system. If this doesn't work we then relocate the access point in question, using some of that service loop. In some cases it may require the addition of an access point, but these relatively major corrections are rare. The majority of your local POE switches are 2610's, which are only 10/100 BASE -T switches. So in many cases you'll be connecting your access points to 100 MBPS copper ports. This is very permissible, although it doesn't take advantage of the full capacity of the wireless access point, which has a theoretical maximum aggregate data rate of 600 MBPS (two 150 MBPS streams from each of two radios). We do think that as long as you experience the limited amount of wireless traffic you had been seeing this will work well. If capacity does become a problem in any area, you can later invest in selective switch upgrades to gigabit copper. This covers the wireless implementation. On to the rest of the proposed work..... Network Configuration Proposal. The other three days' onsite work will be devoted to a general configuration check of your existing wired network, and a selective re- working of that configuration. The goal here is to improve the function of your wired network, simplify configurations where possible (simpler is better —the networking bible says so), and to implement a guest VLAN on the wired network as well. This will allow a guest to attach to that guest wired port that only goes to the Internet. K!