Kevin Sandlin from the CWNP program starts out the show with a couple of announcements about the CWNP program for 2010. Specifically talking about the return of the CWAP certification, the new CWDP certification, and how these will effect the future of the capstone CWNE program.
For the second half of the show, we’ve brought back Jennifer Huber – to talk with us about some of the issues and pitfalls in designing and implementing a Real Time Location Tracking system.
Here’s a link to the actual announcement of the new CWDP program, the return of the CWAP, and the changes to the CWNE requirements.
New logos for the various programs as well.
CWAP® – Certified Wireless Analysis Professional
The CWAP certification is a professional level wireless LAN certification for the CWNP Program. The CWAP certification will advance your career by ensuring you have the skills to successfully analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize any enterprise Wi-Fi network, no matter which brand of Wi-Fi gear your organization deploys.
CWDP – Certified Wireless Design Professional
The CWDPTM certification is a professional level wireless LAN certification for the CWNP Program. The CWDP certification will advance your career by ensuring you have the skills to successfully design enterprise Wi-Fi networks for a variety of different applications, deployments, and environments, no matter which brand of Wi-Fi gear your organization deploys.
CWNE® – Certified Wireless Network Expert
The CWNE (Certified Wireless Network Expert®) credential is the final step in the CWNP Program. By successfully completing the CWNE requirements, you will have demonstrated that you have the most advanced skills available in today’s enterprise Wi-Fi market.
The CWNE certification assures that you have mastered all relevant skills to administer, install, configure, troubleshoot, and design wireless network systems. Protocol analysis, intrusion detection and prevention, performance and QoS analysis, spectrum analysis and management, and advanced design are some of the areas of expertise you will need to know.
Thanks to Kevin for sharing this information about the updates to this Vendor-Neutral Wireless LAN Certification Program.
Thanks too to Jennifer Huber to take the time to talk about some of the issues surrounding designing Wireless LANs for Real-Time Location Tracking with RFID.
Here are some of the links and notes from our discussion.
Jennifer did the math to find the percentages of additional APs required for a given type deployment.
Voice is from 22% ~ 26% more APs than Data only deployments
Location is from 25% ~ 43% more APs than Voice deployments
The low percentages are for standard office environments, the middle ground is educational facilities, and the high end is health care environments.
I didn’t factor for warehouse/manufacturing environments.
The Cisco LBS accuracy is stated as being within 10 meters 90 percent of the time
Wi-Fi Location-Based Services 4.1 Design Guide
Recommendation for re-calibration semi-annually in an active logistics shipping & receiving area
Minimum signal level thresholds
Tips for successful (client) calibrations
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