3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A WX1200 Shared Coverage Areas, Shows an example of shared coverage areas

Defining Wireless Coverage Areas 113

Defining a Coverage Using the coverage area drawing tool, you can specify the coverage area Area graphically on your floor plan.

You perform the following tasks to define a coverage area:

1“Drawing a Coverage Area” on page 114

2“Specifying the Wireless Technology for a Coverage Area” on page 116

3“Specifying Coverage Area Properties” on page 117

4“Specifying Floor Properties for the Coverage Area” on page 118

5“Specifying Default Device Settings for the Coverage Area” on page 119

6“Specifying Redundancy Computation for MAPs in the Coverage Area” on page 120

7“Configuring Capacity Calculation for Data” on page 122

8“Configuring Capacity Calculation for Voice” on page 123

9“Specifying Mobility Domain, Radio Profile, and Wiring Closet Associations” on page 125

Shared Coverage Areas

3WXM supports the sharing of coverage areas if one area is completely within a larger area. For example, you might want to provide 802.11a and 802.11b coverage in a conference room that is part of a larger coverage area only providing 802.11a coverage. (Coverage areas that partially overlap are not supported.) MAP access points are shared only in the overlapped area.

Figure 5 shows an example of shared coverage areas.

Figure 5 Supported Shared Coverage Areas Example

Area 1

Area 2

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