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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.

Figure1 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