Like all designs, Wi-Fi design is an iterative process, so once you have completed your predictive design, you need to validate it. The most common system of design confirmation is performing an AP on a Stick (APoS) check. By mounting APs in the locales preliminarily linked, you will be ready to validate effects like AP placements, channel application, capacity, content, and RF in the terrain. This will ensure that your design is performing as predicted. 

Validating your design is critical to successful network deployment. Mounting the APs and any external antennas can help reveal any implicit fine-tuning needed before running the final cabling and installing the APs. The confirmation phase is the “measure doubly, cut formerly” part of the Wi-Fi lifecycle. This aids you in alleviating the threat of expensive redesign, rewiring, and reinstallation after the APs have been stationed.

The confirmation stage of the Wi-Fi lifecycle also includes post-deployment confirmation once the network outfit has been installed and configured rightly. 

With the Ekahau Survey mobile app along with your Ekahau Apprentice, you can conduct pre-and post-installation confirmation checks. By using the power of the Apprentice, you will be ready to get a more accurate understanding of how your APoS or post-implementation design is performing. Survey transforms your smartphone or tablet into a lightweight inspection tool supplying you the freedom of movement and enhanced safety. Dissect the results of your check with Ekahau Pro and make any necessary adaptations to meet your conditions. 

You can also share your results via the cloud with multiple people in the field who can now work simultaneously on the same design. Critical data can be speedily sent to the Wi-Fi expert in charge.