Capacity Management in wireless

Hi ,
Please provide some tips for wireless capacity management and improvement 
Regards
Manish

No, how i can proactively monitor the wireless network  in enterprise network and suggest improvement like  addition of  Access points etc. or for  a new WLAN site implementation 
how i can decide number of access points ??

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