Wireless Consulting Expertise

Progent's Wi-Fi site survey experts can assist you to plan, deploy, optimize, and debug a Wi-Fi network for any venue, offering your business a WLAN that provides the coverage, speed, capacity, Quality of Service, data protection, and hand-off ability your organization needs. Wi-Fi site survey services from Progent include offsite predictive modeling for planning a wireless network and onsite survey services for confirming, tuning, and debugging your existing Wi-Fi network.

Progent's Wi-Fi professionals are certified for Ekahau's radio modeling and simulation applications for designing your wireless deployment and Ekahau's signal capture hardware for recording wireless packets at your site to determine throughput and detect problems. Progent's wireless professionals are experts at integrating leading Wi-Fi access point products and wireless controller appliances including older devices and newer 802.11ax devices.

Progent's Predictive Wi-Fi Design Services
Progent's predictive wireless planning services can be performed remotely and utilize advanced RF modeling and analysis tools to design an efficient wireless network. With predictive design, you provide Progent's Wi-Fi professionals your floor plans and describe your physical environment such as walls, doors, cable access, elevator shafts, and building materials. You also define your coverage, density, and throughput requirements as well as your constraints. Also, you estimate the types of devices your clients will connect, the software they will run, and the maximum traffic they will produce. Progent will utilize your input to build a mathematical simulation of your environment and devise a design that details the preferred manufacturers for your access points, the required number of APs, their ideal location and antenna type, their most effective configuration and their anticipated throughput.

Progent's On-premises Wi-Fi Site Survey
Progent's on-premises Wi-Fi survey utilizes Ekahau's specialized RF signal measurement device and related software to help you to validate, tune, and debug your current wireless deployment. These services are typically performed shortly after a fresh deployment or used as a diagnostic tool to scale, optimize, or troubleshoot a mature Wi-Fi network. Offered across the United States, Progent's onsite wireless survey services feature walkthrough testing for RF coverage and interference, checking for access point overpopulation, signal propagation mapping, security auditing, and selection of optimum placement for customer-requested Wi-Fi APs.

Progent's consultants can deliver remote and onsite guidance for a broad selection of wireless access points and offer support that include Cisco Aironet wireless access point set up, Meraki Wi-Fi access point management, Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wi-Fi access point configuration, Catalyst Wi-Fi AP solution planning, Ubiquiti UniFi wireless access point integration, and Apple AirPort Wi-Fi access point setup. Progent's on-premises wireless survey features interviews with your network management staff to determine target functionality for the WLAN. Progent's BICSI RCDD and Ekahau certified wireless survey experts can propose cost-effective Wi-Fi network enhancements that incorporate modern Wi-Fi products and provide maximum ROI.

Progent can provide help for creating a modern BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Wi-Fi network by delivering services such as iPhone and iPad integration, and Android phone and tablet consulting. iPhones and tablets, Androids, Windows Phones, and other mobile devices can present user density issues and can also create transmit power mismatches that require careful setup for access points. Progent's wireless site survey provides the information necessary to understand these issues and design an efficient and effective BYOD network.

Deliverables for Progent's predictive and on-premises wireless site surveys can include:

• RF Wi-Fi Spectrum Analysis including detection of RF issues related to your facility's layout, physical structure, and other potential sources of RF interference so you can anticipate and mitigate issues during the WLAN design phase.
• RF Coverage Maps in the form of color RF contour images (heat maps) for the spots requiring coverage to help you to determine the optimal number and location of wireless access points and indicate likely signal spillover zones and coverage gaps
• Capacity Plan for specifying and providing the bandwidth required to support all applications and users
• Cable Paths depicted as line diagrams you can provide to cabling contractors
• Device Installation guidance on where and how to install wireless devices plus identification of special hardware that may be needed (NEMA enclosures, radio antennas, etc.)
• Infrastructure Requirements to describe all facility and networking equipment necessary to support the wireless deployment like available switch interfaces, POE, electrical, and rack space

World-Class Network Infrastructure Expertise
Progent has one of the largest rosters of certified Cisco CCIE network infrastructure experts of any independent IT support firm in the country and can assist your organization to integrate your WLAN seamlessly into your wired network. Progent can help you to install and manage Cisco routers, switches, and security devices as well as Cisco Mobility products including Wi-Fi access points and wireless LAN controllers. Progent also can provide expertise with networking technologys from Juniper, Apple, Ubiquiti, and other top vendors. To learn more about Progent's online and on-premises consulting expertise for Cisco wireless solutions, refer to consulting and debugging support for Cisco Wi-Fi technology.

To assist you with company-wide cybersecurity issues, Progent offers the support of cybersecurity experts who have been awarded advanced certifications from CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC and other prominent security authorities. Progent's security and compliance specialists offer a broad range of remote and onsite services that include security assessments, penetration testing, disaster recovery preparedness, and endpoint active security monitoring and ransomware protection with SentinelOne technology.

Contact Progent for Wi-Fi Planning and Site Survey Consulting
To learn more about Progent's consulting services for online wireless predictive planning and onsite wireless surveys, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.