ESS™ is the easiest to use, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi design and maintenance tool for Wi-Fi professionals. With crystal clear heat maps and easy-to-use reports, ESS makes it simple to optimize Wi-Fi.
ESS will let you plan and create Wi-Fi networks according to your performance and capacity requirements - taking into consideration the increasing amount of wireless clients (BYOD) and simulating real-life application usage such as VoIP, HD video streaming and web browsing.
Ekahau's newest round of updates to Ekahau Insights gives users new ways to collaborate within Ekahau, adds design project support, and introduces new advanced heatmap details.
Together, these details allow you to drill down further into your designs and surveys with your collaborators, so you can get the best possible business Wi-Fi.
Let’s take a closer look, in this video.
For wireless professionals, IT managers, and administrators, Ekahau Site Survey™ (ESS) is an easy-to-use design, verification and troubleshooting tool. ESS is a visual, software-based tool that runs on laptop computers running Windows (also runs on a Mac using Bootcamp).
Ekahau Site Survey ensures high performance and capacity (BYOD) for any Wi-Fi network (802.11ac/n/legacy) that is used for VoIP, video, location tracking, or highspeed data. If you don’t have a Wi-Fi network yet, ESS will automatically suggest access point placement and optimal configurations. If you already have a Wi-Fi network in place, ESS allows quick and easy site surveys, performance and capacity analysis, optimization, and troubleshooting.
ESS places your access points in their optimal locations throughout the building floor plan
Ekahau Site Survey supports surveying using multiple Wi-Fi adapters at the same time.
And it’s the only tool to allow simultaneous surveying with Wi-Fi adapters and RTLS tags!
ESS shows you where to place and how to configure your access points. ESS also accurately predicts network coverage, performance and capacity.
Network planning is available only in Ekahau Site Survey Professional version.
Ekahau’s unique Hybrid Site Survey technology allows performing active and passive network testing simultaneously- in just one quick walk-through around the facility.
Ekahau Site Survey also gets you going with multi-adapter surveys without any pre-configuration – just start surveying.
During the survey:
The Network Health view compares the Wi-Fi performance with your requirements. The Capacity Health shows if all your devices will work.
ESS allows visual map-based analysis, as well as powerful on-the-spot troubleshooting.
The Network Issues view summarizes the Wi-Fi network condition; it shows why your network fails and where. The real-time views, such as Live Network Status and Live Signals, show the network conditions right here, right now.
ESS creates a summarized report of the bill of materials, coverage and performance maps, and complete network layout with configurations.
With a single click of a button, the entire multi-floor, even multi-building site will be completely covered in a detailed report.
Automated Reporting is available only in Ekahau Site Survey Professional version.
The Ekahau Wi-Fi based Real-Time Location System (RTLS) is used for tracking people and assets indoors. Hundreds of hospitals, schools, mines, and other facilities already benefit from RTLS.
The state-of-the-art RTLS tools in Ekahau Site Survey enable designing and deploying Wi-Fi that will work ideally, not just for data and voice, but also for RTLS.
802.11ac and 802.11n increase Wi-Fi capacity – and complexity. ESS helps you understand and optimize your 802.11ac and 802.11n deployment
Wi-Fi works over public frequencies, which makes it vulnerable to interference from other devices sharing the same spectrum.
These include other Wi-Fi devices, as well as non-Wi-Fi devices such as microwave ovens, cordless phones and wireless video cameras.
Ekahau Site Survey and Ekahau Spectrum Analyzer provide various tools for troubleshooting and minimizing interference issues:
* Ekahau Spectrum Analyzer required
The network design challenges are shifting from coverage to capacity due to the increasing number of corporate Wi-Fi devices as well as the BYOD trend (bring your own device).
ESS Auto-Planner designs the network according to your capacity requirements. ESS also shows the overloaded APs and areas of excessive voice calls.
