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Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance
Deployment Guide
Deployment Guide
This document provides configuration and deployment guidelines as well as troubleshooting tips and
answers to frequently asked technical questions for those adding the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless
Location Appliance (hereafter referred to as the location appliance) (
answers to frequently asked technical questions for those adding the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless
Location Appliance (hereafter referred to as the location appliance) (
) to a Cisco wireless LAN
network. The existing installation and configuration guides for this appliance are available at the
following location:
following location:
Note
This document assumes an indoor installation of the location appliance, and any guidelines and
accuracies cited are consistent with that assumption.
accuracies cited are consistent with that assumption.
Figure 1
Cisco 2700 Location Appliance
The location appliance tracks 802.11 devices directly from a wireless LAN infrastructure using
advanced RF fingerprinting technology. Additionally, the appliance records information so that you can
establish location trends and resolve problems regarding RF capacity.
advanced RF fingerprinting technology. Additionally, the appliance records information so that you can
establish location trends and resolve problems regarding RF capacity.
By design, the location appliance is directly integrated into the wireless LAN infrastructure and is
configured through its command-line interface and then managed through WCS. The location appliance
tracks the physical location of wireless devices using wireless LAN controllers and Cisco Aironet
configured through its command-line interface and then managed through WCS. The location appliance
tracks the physical location of wireless devices using wireless LAN controllers and Cisco Aironet