Wireless Access

Hi Onno,

Thank you very much for replying. 

Pardon my confusion, but I think it's
https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP-ANT-1.pdf

Both antennas look alike, I see a difference and I am trying to confirm it now.

I started for the company last September, the Wi-Fi was done by a 3rd party years back, and there are a lot of issues since the very beginning. I am trying to improve it, so I am checking every angle.

Going back to the antennas, if mine are AP-ANT-1 and the APs are fixed on the ceiling, is there are document saying that they should be vertically down or bent?  From the diagram of the Elevation and Azimuth planes I assume it's best if they are vertically orientated, also I assume that the orientation of the wide part of the antenna makes a difference too.

I need an Aruba document to support what I am saying in from of management. 

As for channels and power - on most of the APs this was fixed and the ones that were using ARM all channels were allowed.

The fixed ones were on channel 36 to 64 only, I have introduced channel 100 to 140 (excluded 120,124 &128) and reduced ARM channels to the above. There is an improvement, but still got work to do.

Thanks again,

David

Hi Onno,

Thank you very much for replying. 

Pardon my confusion, but I think it's
https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP-ANT-1.pdf

Both antennas look alike, I see a difference and I am trying to confirm it now.

I started for the company last September, the Wi-Fi was done by a 3rd party years back, and there are a lot of issues since the very beginning. I am trying to improve it, so I am checking every angle.

Going back to the antennas, if mine are AP-ANT-1 and the APs are fixed on the ceiling, is there are document saying that they should be vertically down or bent?  From the diagram of the Elevation and Azimuth planes I assume it's best if they are vertically orientated, also I assume that the orientation of the wide part of the antenna makes a difference too.

I need an Aruba document to support what I am saying in from of management. 

As for channels and power - on most of the APs this was fixed and the ones that were using ARM all channels were allowed.

The fixed ones were on channel 36 to 64 only, I have introduced channel 100 to 140 (excluded 120,124 &128) and reduced ARM channels to the above. There is an improvement, but still got work to do.

Thanks again,

David

Hi Onno,

Thank you very much for replying. 

Pardon my confusion, but I think it's
https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP-ANT-1.pdf

Both antennas look alike, I see a difference and I am trying to confirm it now.

I started for the company last September, the Wi-Fi was done by a 3rd party years back, and there are a lot of issues since the very beginning. I am trying to improve it, so I am checking every angle.

Going back to the antennas, if mine are AP-ANT-1 and the APs are fixed on the ceiling, is there are document saying that they should be vertically down or bent?  From the diagram of the Elevation and Azimuth planes I assume it's best if they are vertically orientated, also I assume that the orientation of the wide part of the antenna makes a difference too.

I need an Aruba document to support what I am saying in from of management. 

As for channels and power - on most of the APs this was fixed and the ones that were using ARM all channels were allowed.

The fixed ones were on channel 36 to 64 only, I have introduced channel 100 to 140 (excluded 120,124 &128) and reduced ARM channels to the above. There is an improvement, but still got work to do.

Thanks again,

David

Hey David, I think what is needed here is a specific look at what you are trying to do, and I can potentially draw up some predictive examples of what you have no compared to what you're looking or trying to do. But we do not build collateral around specific architectures for warehouse deployments, we have some Atmosphere powerpoint decks that we maintain as our 'best practices' for typical warehouse deployments going in net-new, and while they can be used as an example of what we feel are our 'best practices' are not always the 'ONLY way' to do things, as such, there are always examples where a previous design or deployment went in that doesn't conform to our designs, but works fine, or may not, at which point it becomes a more -bespoke' design session unqiue to your environment.

I will email you at your user name with another of our TMEs who handles warehousing and we can take this offline to see what we can help provide, guidance and/or some example heatmaps using some RF planning tools.

As others have mentioned, the ANT-1s are NOT a good antenna for ceiling heights that tall, the fact of the matter is for those dipoles when mounted/oriented vertically are sending more RF out and way and not down, leading to very poor ground coverage, poor AP to AP cellularization, etc. Turning the antennas to be 'horizonal', aka rolling the donut parallel to the aisle, could be a decent mitigation in your specific case, though it dependson the aisle arrangement and AP locations, but in general that would be a 'workaround' for your situation that may improve, not a design target/intention we would ever use (though I know of two cases I suggested deploying horizontal omnis perpendicular to the aisle but in both cases that was for mobile racks on rails). 

So look for an email from my and we can take it off line, and then once we think we have a good way forward, you can come back here and close the loop on this thread. 

Hi Onno,

Thank you very much for replying. 

Pardon my confusion, but I think it's
https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP-ANT-1.pdf

Both antennas look alike, I see a difference and I am trying to confirm it now.

I started for the company last September, the Wi-Fi was done by a 3rd party years back, and there are a lot of issues since the very beginning. I am trying to improve it, so I am checking every angle.

Going back to the antennas, if mine are AP-ANT-1 and the APs are fixed on the ceiling, is there are document saying that they should be vertically down or bent?  From the diagram of the Elevation and Azimuth planes I assume it's best if they are vertically orientated, also I assume that the orientation of the wide part of the antenna makes a difference too.

I need an Aruba document to support what I am saying in from of management. 

As for channels and power - on most of the APs this was fixed and the ones that were using ARM all channels were allowed.

The fixed ones were on channel 36 to 64 only, I have introduced channel 100 to 140 (excluded 120,124 &128) and reduced ARM channels to the above. There is an improvement, but still got work to do.

Thanks again,

David