Wireless Consulting Support

Progent's Wi-Fi site survey experts can assist you to plan, configure, optimize, and debug a Wi-Fi LAN for any venue, offering you a WLAN that provides the coverage, performance, capacity, QoS, security, and hand-off ability your company requires. Wi-Fi site survey services from Progent include remote predictive modeling for planning a wireless network and onsite RF measurement for validating, optimizing, and debugging your current wireless LAN.

Progent's wireless survey consultants are certified for Ekahau's radio modeling applications for planning your Wi-Fi deployment and Ekahau's spectrum analysis devices for recording Wi-Fi packets at your site to measure performance and detect problems. Progent's wireless survey consultants have experience setting up leading Wi-Fi access point products and Wi-Fi controller appliances including outdated devices and modern Wi-Fi 6 appliances.

Progent's Predictive Wireless Design Services
Progent's predictive Wi-Fi design services can be performed remotely and utilize advanced RF simulation and analysis tools to plan an efficient Wi-Fi network. With predictive design, you send Progent's wireless professionals your facility's floor plans and describe your environment including walls, doors, cable access, elevator shafts, and building materials. You also specify your coverage, density, and performance targets as well as your constraints. Also, you estimate the kinds of endpoint devices your clients will operate, the applications they will run, and the maximum wireless traffic they will produce. Progent will utilize your information to create a digital simulation of your environment and devise a plan that includes the preferred vendors for your access points, the recommended number of APs, their ideal location and antenna selection, their proper configuration and power settings and their predicted performance.

Progent's On-premises Wi-Fi Site Survey
Progent's on-premises Wi-Fi survey uses a purpose-built Wi-Fi signal collection instrument and associated software tools to allow you to confirm, tune, and debug an existing wireless deployment. This is typically performed shortly after a recent deployment or used as a tool to scale, optimize, or troubleshoot an older Wi-Fi LAN. Available across the U.S., Progent's on-premises wireless survey services feature walkthrough measuring for radio frequency coverage and contention, detection of AP overpopulation, RF propagation mapping, security auditing, and identification of optimum placement for customer-specified Wireless Access Points.

Progent's consultants can deliver remote and on-premises expertise for a wide range of Wi-Fi APs and can provide services such as Cisco Aironet Wi-Fi access point integration, Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi AP management, Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wi-Fi AP consulting, Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi access point deployment design, Ubiquity UniFi Wi-Fi access point configuration, and Apple AirPort wireless AP setup. Progent’s onsite wireless survey includes consultation with your network management to define performance parameters for the Wi-Fi network. Progent's BICSI RCDD and Ekahau certified wireless site survey professionals can propose affordable WLAN enhancements that incorporate the latest Wi-Fi technology and deliver maximum ROI.

Progent can provide expertise for building a modern BYOD wireless environment by delivering services such as iPhone and iPad integration, and Android phone and tablet consulting. iPhones and iPads, Androids, Windows Phones, and other mobile devices can pose client density challenges and can also create transmission power imbalances that require special configuration of access points. Progent’s Wi-Fi site survey provides the insight you need to address these issues and design an affordable and productive BYOD network.

Deliverables for Progent’s predictive and onsite wireless site surveys can include:

• RF Spectrum Analysis including detection of RF issues related to your environment's layout, material structure, and other potential sources of RF interference so you can anticipate and mitigate problems during the wireless network design phase.
• RF Coverage Maps that show color RF contour images (heat maps) for the spots that need coverage to assist you to select the most efficient number and position of WAPs and identify likely RF leakage zones and coverage gaps
• Capacity Plan for defining and delivering the bandwidth required to accommodate all applications and clients
• Cable Paths depicted as red line diagrams you can provide to cabling installers
• Device Installation guidance on where and how to install wireless devices plus description of special equipment that may be required (NEMA enclosures, antennas, etc.)
• Infrastructure Requirements to specify all facility and networking equipment necessary to service the Wi-Fi deployment like available switch ports, Power over Ethernet, electrical power, and rack space

World-Class Network Infrastructure Consulting
Progent has one of the largest teams of certified Cisco CCIE network infrastructure consultants of any independent IT services company in the U.S. and can help your organization to integrate your Wi-Fi LAN seamlessly into your corporate network. Progent can help your company to deploy and maintain Cisco ISR routers, switches, and security appliances as well as Cisco Mobility products including Wi-Fi access points and wireless LAN controllers. Progent also offers expertise with networking technologys from Juniper Networks, Apple, Ubiquity, and other leading vendors. To find out more about Progent's online and onsite consulting expertise for Cisco Wi-Fi solutions, refer to consulting and debugging support for Cisco wireless technology.

To assist you with enterprise-wide security and compliance issues, Progent offers the services of IT security engineers who have been awarded advanced certifications from CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC and other major security organizations. Progent’s cybersecurity specialists can provide a wide range of remote and onsite services that include security assessments, penetration testing, disaster recovery planning, and endpoint active security monitoring and ransomware defense.

Contact Progent for Wi-Fi Site Survey Services
To find out more about Progent's consulting services for online wireless predictive planning and on-premises Wi-Fi surveys, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.