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The WLAN Planning Wizard: Capacity Planning – Advance Parameters screen appears.
Figure 75.
Capacity Planning – Advance Parameters
Specify the factors you would like to consider for WLAN capacity planning. These are ‘What-If’ scenarios.
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Select the effects on AP capacity:
802.11 medium access anomaly: Select to consider the proportion of active users at various data rates.
802.11 medium access contention: Select to consider bandwidth contention determined by the total number of
active users per AP and the amount of uplink traffic.
802.11 bandwidth efficiency: Select to consider the impact of overhead on bandwidth efficiency.
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Select either of the type of per AP capacity estimate (based on the selected factors) to plan the WLAN:
Conservative: Uses the worst case per AP capacity to estimate the number of APs required. This option usually
estimates more number of APs.
Optimistic: Might overestimate per AP capacity more than observed in practice. This usually requires less
number of APs compared to the Conservative estimate.
Average: Moderately estimates per AP capacity and is a balance between the Conservative and Optimistic
options. This is the default selected.
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Accounting for the effect of Wi-Fi interference gives a more accurate estimate of capacity. For instance, in a scenario
with densely packed APs, the inter-AP interference may considerably degrade the capacity. In some cases, the
capacity requirement may not be feasible due to high interference. Specify if you want to consider the effect of Wi-Fi
Interference.
Yes
No