The Cisco Wireless Networking Site Survey course is designed to give you a firm understanding of how to conduct a site survey and explores WLAN topologies for voice and data as well as location appliance services. Explore design strategies, including Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) planning tool, Cisco Spectrum Expert (formerly Cognio Spectrum Expert), AirMagnet Survey PRO as well as examine methodologies and project management. The CWNSS training class reinforces the instruction by providing you with hands-on labs that range from planning a site survey with WCS, using Cisco Spectrum Expert to perform a Layer one sweep of a facility to locate an interfering device, install and configure AirMagnet Survey PRO to perform a site survey of a facility, conduct a site survey for VoWLAN, and build a calibration model for location based services and apply it to a floor in WCS.
Laptops are provided to participate in the hands-on labs. If you desire to use your own laptop, please bring a laptop computer with an available 32-bit CardBus slot and an Ethernet port as well as an internal wireless NIC, 802.11a/b/g. The laptop’s operating systems must be either MS Windows 2000 (SP4) or XP. The laptop should also have a 9-pin serial port or USB to serial adapter. IN ADDITION, you will need administrator rights to the laptop to install drivers for the wireless client used in class. .
