I have done several site surveys for very large Warehouses with great success...I set up a test AP on tripod and take readings throughout the entire place. Based on signal penetration and quality , I can figure how many APs will do the trick ...most of these have been Cisco APs (user preference) or UniFi units (my recommendation) ... All of these have been for bar code scanners and tablets...I recommend dual band units....using the heat map technique works well... You will not need as many APs as Cisco seems to recommend for everything...in one warehouse there recommended 45 units .. 16 did the trick.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 7:46 PM Daniel White <[email protected]> wrote: > With warehouses it is rarely the vendor that is the issue... rather it is > the placement and type of APs you are utilizing. > > I'd almost guarantee whatever issues they are facing are because they are > using omni-directional APs. Narrow sectors are typically what you want to > utilize. > > When Ruckus was the beam-forming kings back in the 802.11g and 802.11n > days they excelled in these deployments... but to my knowledge they don't > necessarily have a leg up now over any other enterprise platform. > > Before ripping and replacing AP's... I'd recommend your friend gets > someone in there familiar with warehouse WiFi design. It is a very > different animal than designing WiFi for houses, MDUs, and commercial > buildings. > > [image: photograph] > Daniel White > Co-Founder > phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 > direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 > > Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> > January 12, 2021 at 11:05 > I have a friend that manages a 10 acre warehouse. He has about 100 unify > AP pros in there and is asking if there is a better solution. > > I told him that I thought the Unify AP Pros were pretty good stuff but > there is a lot of stuff out there. I remember using Rukus for AnimalFarm > shows. > > What might be better. By better I would think fewer APs, stronger more > reliable signals etc. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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