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High Density WiFi Deployment

Researching options:

1. 25 Cisco access points with controler
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/w…ducts.html
2. 25 Meraki access points with cloud based controler
http://meraki.com/products_services/enterprise
3. 25 Ruckus access points new design with 16 antennas and ZoneDirector controller hardware/ software.
600 per unit,Power injector 50, 25 aps controller 1125 4000
560 yearly support
http://www.ruckuswireless.com/enterprises/education
Controller: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/controllers
4. 12 Xirrus access points new design with 4,8 or 16 access points in one device with on board controller and controlled using XM-3300-CC server appliance or software version on existing server. Price ~ 750 per radio. If one unit has 4 access points the price would be 4 x 750.
http://xirrus.com/products/arrays-80211abgn.php
Controller: http://xirrus.com/products/management.php

Nice comparison of Ruckus and Cisco on tomshardware.com

You will need:
SSID information
Security information (WEP, WPA etc) and encryption type if used (TKIP or AES)
Security Key

1. Click start
2. type Manage wireless Networks in the search
3. click Add
4. click on Manually create a network profile
5. Enter SSID in the Network name filed
Chose Security (WEP, WPA, WPA2 etc)
6. If you are using WPA security type select encryption type (TKIP or AES)
7. Enter the security Key
8. Select connect to this connection automatically
9. If the network SSID is hiden at the access point level choose connect even if the network is not broadcasting.
10. Click next and then close

your manually added wireless network will show up in the list and will be ready to connect.

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High Density WiFi Deployment

Add wireless network manualy