Site survey for voip cutover

need a template to conduct a site survey to determine phone lines, extentions, phone features, etc

The following book has some useful questionnaires.
http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587051575
Hope this helps. If so, please rate the post.
Brandon

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    When you check the signal coverage, make sure the AP's radio transmit power does not use a transmit power greater than what the client devices can support. For example, by default, the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G uses the highest available transmit power by default (17 dBm / 50 mW for 2.4 GHz and 16 dBm / 40 mW for 5 GHz). It is possible to have a survey report that shows good coverage in all areas; however, if you have APs that operate at the highest transmit power, you might still experience uplink issues where the client devices do not support the same transmit power. For areas where there is deficient coverage, and you increase the AP transmit power to levels that the client devices cannot support, this only increases coverage on the downlink.
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  • Wireless Site-Survey for High Density Environment

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    There is now available beta code for autonomous 1260 series APs.  You could reach out to your Cisco contact and try to get that.  The 1260 and 3500 series APs are identical with the exception of the spectrum capabilities in the 3500.  So you can survey for a 3500 deployment with an autonomous 1260.
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    Sorry to inform you but there is no autonomous code for the 3500. You could however use the 1140 code. But this not supported by Cisco but it does work ..
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    Well... first get a 20 year old pickup truck and mount a TV station news van pneumatic pole on it. (halfway kidding here but look at my rig on http://ralphfowler.com )
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    Bask in the glory as people wonder how you did it with almost no software investment.
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  • Site Survey- Clarity

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    You can do either an active or passive. I would never use an RF planner tool at all. What you can do is do a passive survey of the existing environment and look for areas in which do not meet the RF requirement for what the client requires. Then you can add access points to those areas to help meet the requirements.
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  • Wireless site survey planner tool for multi floor office building

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  • Looking for a beginners guide ot site survey

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  • Site survey tools for ipad

    Hi,
    I was trying to find some apps for iPad/iPad mini which are useful in conducting a wireless site-survey. Any app which will scan air and gives list of available wireless networks along with their  RSSI/SNR values.
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  • Config for using 1242 for site survey

    Hello, i'm helping a coworker, we have a 1242 and would like to use it for a site survey, but we are not able to activate the radio using conf t it is in light weight, are we missing something? were can i find a config example to use for this purpose?

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  • Configuring 1142 to use for site survey.

    Just got in a bunch of the 1142 N-A-K9 APs. I need to set them up to do a site survey with.
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