A lot of people know that Hallways designs are a bit of a pet peeve of mine. My opinion is that they do not work, and beyond moving the APs out of the hall, you cannot fix them. But the reality is that moving APs and existing infrastructure can be really expensive, time consuming and difficult to get management to buy off on. This means that you probably will have to live with some of your existing hallway designs for the foreseeable future.
In this series, my aim is to explore the options available to improving performance of a hallway design. As an engineer working for a Cisco Gold Partner, I’m going to talk about some of the tools available in the Cisco Unified Wireless Network (CUWN) to help deal with these designs.
I’ll leave this short intro post with the following advise:
Don’t put APs in the hallway.
Put APs as close to clients as you can get them.
Think about how RRM works, and incorporate that into your designs
Don’t put APs in the hallway, PLEASE!
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