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Bluesocket® Wireless LANPlanner™, powered by Motorola LANPlanner
Quickly and easily create 2D/3D RF Coverage models from CAD drawing files, scanned blueprints, or rapid sketching. |
Bluesocket® and Motorola® Partner to Simplify Wireless Network Design and Implementation
Installing a robust and reliable wireless network begins with a good solid design. A poorly designed network will suffer from coverage holes, poor service areas, slow response, poor voice quality, dropped calls, and inadequate capacity. These challenges can be eliminated with an efficient design leveraging Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner™ software. Leveraging patented technology from Motorola, this powerful software application enables users to efficiently and effectively plan, track, display and document their wireless network infrastructure.
Leveraging Motorola’s RF Expertise
Motorola’s products are backed by a team of recognized RF industry leaders, with patented technology based on almost a decade of research. By using Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner, you can deploy wireless access points and wireless sensor networks in the most complex environments and even design multi-band systems including IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless standards without being an expert in RF technology. Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner minimizes design and deployment costs and includes the following features:
- Site-specific 3D models that visualize the physical location and configuration of all installed network equipment
- Automated placement and configuration of access points
- Highly accurate coverage and capacity prediction
Motorola’s LANPlanner employs a predictive design approach which uniquely allows companies to consider the context of the environment and predict coverage and capacity before deploying any hardware resources. Motorola’s software enables network planners to import a map of the facility, note the contents and construction materials, designate user regions and applications to be used and place equipment.. The designer then interactively simulates how the wireless signals will propagate and fine-tunes the network design with “what if” analysis to determine optimum performance.
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| Running “what if ” scenarios to visualize WLAN coverage. |
Design and Simulation
Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner enhances wireless network design by simulating the expected performance of your network and graphically displaying these results on a site-specific 2D/3D model. Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner allows you to efficiently and accurately design IEEE 802.11a/b/g and multi-band systems in the most complex environments. You can review vital information such as RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), SIR (Signal to Interference Ratio), SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio), throughput and bit-error rate. Other features include:
- Automated equipment placement and configuration
- The ability to visualize the physical location and configuration of all installed network equipment
- Automatically create a bill-of-materials and maintenance records
Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner — Site-specific 3D Modeling
This unique software tool allows you to easily convert drawing files or paper floor plans into multiple-story building databases quickly and efficiently. To ensure an accurate design, Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner allows you to specify the RF characteristics of walls and other obstructions from our extensive RF attenuation database. It also stores vital asset location and configuration information in a flexible 2D/3D model for simplified management and future network upgrades. Building information can easily and directly be imported into Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner from an existing AutoCAD drawing, a scanned image, digital photograph or PDF file, or a free-hand or electronic sketch of any site.
With Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner, you can instantly verify and record real-time network performance statistics directly from any wireless LAN client device. These real-time measurement statistics are displayed in a site-specific manner and used to optimize your wireless system predictions.
Asset Management and Network Troubleshooting
Electronically share, store and archive complete documentation about your wireless network performance, equipment location, cost and installation in a standard database. This database can be used for problem resolution by simulating changes to your networks prior to implementation. Technology upgrades can be evaluated for coverage and throughput without the expense of test deployments.
Platform Requirements
- Pentium III processor or later
- 500 MHz minimum processor speed (800 MHz or higher recommended)
- At least 256 megabytes of RAM
- 100 megabytes of available hard drive space for installation, and at least 200 megabytes free after installation
- Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP (administrative rights are required for installation)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
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