Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide

This document provides configuration and deployment guidelines as well as troubleshooting tips and answers to frequently asked technical questions for those adding the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance (hereafter referred to as the location appliance) (Figure 1) to a Cisco wireless LAN network. The existing installation and configuration guides for this appliance are available at the following location:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6386/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

Note This document assumes an indoor installation of the location appliance, and any guidelines and accuracies cited are consistent with that assumption.

Figure 1

Cisco 2700 Location Appliance

The location appliance tracks 802.11 devices directly from a wireless LAN infrastructure using advanced RF fingerprinting technology. Additionally, the appliance records information so that you can establish location trends and resolve problems regarding RF capacity.

By design, the location appliance is directly integrated into the wireless LAN infrastructure and is configured through its command-line interface and then managed through WCS. The location appliance tracks the physical location of wireless devices using wireless LAN controllers and Cisco Aironet

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