Network Outsourcing for Midsize Companies

Progent's Wi-Fi site survey experts can assist you to plan, deploy, tune, and debug a Wi-Fi LAN for any environment, offering your business a WLAN that delivers the reception, throughput, density, Quality of Service (QoS), security, and hand-off capability your organization requires. Wi-Fi site survey services available from Progent include offsite predictive analysis for designing a wireless network and on-premises survey services for confirming, optimizing, and troubleshooting an operational Wi-Fi LAN.

Progent's wireless survey consultants are certified for Ekahau's radio modeling and simulation software for designing your wireless deployment and Ekahau's spectrum analysis hardware for capturing wireless traffic at your facility to measure throughput and identify issues. Progent's wireless survey consultants have experience setting up all major Wi-Fi AP products and Wi-Fi controllers including older products and newer 802.11ax appliances.

Progent's Predictive Wi-Fi Planning Services
Progent's predictive Wi-Fi planning services can be carried out offsite and make use of cutting-edge RF modeling and analysis software to design a cost-effective Wi-Fi network. With predictive planning, you provide Progent's Wi-Fi professionals your facility's floor plans and describe your environment including walls, doors, cable access, stairways, and relevant materials. You also define your coverage, density, and throughput targets as well as your constraints. In addition, you estimate the kinds of endpoints your clients will connect, the software they will use, and the maximum traffic they will produce. Progent will use your information to build a digital model of your environment and develop a design that includes the most appropriate vendors for your APs and controllers, the recommended number of access points, their optimal location and antenna type, their most effective settings and their anticipated performance.

Progent's On-premises Wi-Fi Site Survey
Progent's on-premises Wi-Fi survey uses Ekahau's purpose-built RF signal collection device and related software tools to help you to validate, optimize, and debug your current Wi-Fi deployment. This is commonly undertaken immediately after a new installation or used as a diagnostic tool to scale, optimize, or debug a mature wireless LAN. Available throughout the United States, Progent's on-premises Wi-Fi site survey services feature walkthrough testing for RF coverage and interference, checking for access point overpopulation, signal propagation mapping, data protection auditing, and identification of optimum locations for customer-specified Wi-Fi Access Points.

Progent's consultants can deliver remote and onsite guidance for a broad range of Wi-Fi access points and offer services such as Aironet wireless access point integration, Cisco Meraki wireless AP cloud management, Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wi-Fi access point configuration, Catalyst Wi-Fi access point solution design, Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi access point integration, and Apple AirPort Wi-Fi AP installation. Progent's on-premises survey includes consultation with your network management to define performance parameters for the WLAN. Progent's RCCD and Ekahau certified Wi-Fi site survey engineers can recommend cost-effective Wi-Fi LAN improvements that utilize the latest Wi-Fi products and provide maximum ROI.

Progent can provide expertise for building a modern Bring Your Own Device Wi-Fi network by delivering services such as iPhone and iPad integration, and Android phone and tablet consulting. iPhones and iPads, Androids, Windows Phones, and other handheld endpoints can present user density challenges and may also create transmission power imbalances that require special configuration of APs. Progent's wireless site survey provides the information you need to understand these challenges and design an efficient and effective BYOD ecosystem.

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

• Radio Wi-Fi Spectrum Analysis including identification of RF issues related to your environment's layout, material structure, and other possible sources of interference so you can foresee and mitigate problems during the wireless network design process.
• RF Coverage Maps that show color RF contour images for the areas requiring coverage to assist you to select the most efficient quantity and location of wireless access points and identify potential signal leakage zones and holes in coverage
• Capacity Plan for defining and delivering the bandwidth needed to accommodate all apps and clients
• Cable Paths depicted as red line diagrams you can supply to cabling installers
• Device Installation guidance on where and how to deploy wireless devices plus identification of additional hardware that may be needed (NEMA enclosures, radio antennas, etc.)
• Infrastructure Requirements to describe all facility and networking resources necessary to service the Wi-Fi deployment like available switch interfaces, POE, electrical power, and rack capacity

World-Class Network Infrastructure Consulting
Progent has one of the largest teams of certified Cisco CCIE network consultants of any independent IT services company in the country and can assist your organization to integrate your WLAN seamlessly into your wired network. Progent can assist your company to deploy and manage Cisco ISR routers, switches, and security appliances as well as Cisco Mobility products including Wi-Fi access points and Wi-Fi LAN controllers. Progent also offers expertise with networking technologys from Juniper Networks, Apple, Ubiquiti, and other top vendors. To find out more about Progent's remote and on-premises consulting expertise for Cisco Wi-Fi technology, refer to consulting and troubleshooting services for Cisco wireless products.

To assist you with company-wide security and compliance issues, Progent can provide the support of network security engineers who have been awarded advanced credentials from CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC and other prominent security authorities. Progent's cybersecurity experts offer a broad range of online and onsite services such as security assessments, penetration testing, disaster recovery planning, and endpoint active security monitoring and ransomware defense with SentinelOne technology.

Contact Progent for Wireless Survey Expertise
To find out more about Progent's consulting expertise for online wireless predictive planning and on-premises wireless surveys, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.