Cisco Systems 7920 Manual

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Site Survey Guide for Deploying Cisco 7920 IP Phones

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Survey Tools

AirMagnet offers many tools for analyzing 802.11 performance at a site. Figure 2-1 shows the

AirMagnet Survey tool. Cisco recommends AirMagnet for data and WIPT surveys.

Figure 2-1 AirMagnet Survey Tool

An accurate survey requires packets sent in both directions. The size of the packets needs to equal the

size of the packets used by the primary applications used at the survey site. Figure 2-2 shows a packet

capture of the AirMagnet Survey tool survey packets. This window shows that the AirMagnet tool is

actively sending packets.