32CHAPTER 2: PLANNING AND MANAGING YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK WITH 3WXM
RF Auto-Tuning with Modelling, as with the RF Auto-Tuning technique, lets you set the auto tuning feature to adjust power and channel settings to provide RF signals to the coverage area for your users. Enhance the auto tuning feature by providing modelling information about your geographic location. By providing some information about your buildings and floors, you add enough details into 3WXM so that your can better visualize your network topology and support improved monitoring at your site.
RF Planning is a technique you can use to create a detailed network plan that provides powerful monitoring and visualization benefits. Unlike RF Auto-Tuning or RF Auto-Tuning with Modelling, you do not rely on the auto tuning feature. Instead, you fully model your geographic location with detailed information about your floors, and specify your RF coverage areas and your RF obstacles.
Each of these methods is described in the sections that follow.
RF Auto-TuningTo use the RF Auto-Tuning technique:
Physically place WX switches and the MAPs in their desired locations.
Upload a WX switch configuration and deploy it
Enable the RF Auto-Tuning feature
This is a great way to install a WX switch and some MAPs, and observe how the network operates. The RF Auto-Tuning plan is best suited to networks containing fewer MAPs.
RF Auto-Tuning with To use the RF Auto-Tuning with Modelling technique, you add to the RF Modelling Auto-Tuning technique by providing some geographical modelling about
your building, floors, and RF coverage area. You also add RF obstacle information for major obstacles (like concrete walls, windows, and elevator shafts) that affect attenuation—the quality of RF signals emitted from and received by the MAPs.
By adding geographical modelling, you will be able to manage your network in the context of that geographical information. For example, you will be able to manage your network overlaid on a floor plan, versus managing an abstract logical group of switches and MAPs.
