everybody and welcome to our webinar for today this is the ether scope
XG version 1.2 introduction webinar my name is Dan Clem key I'm the director of
product marketing here at net ally also with me is James Kokoschka our CTO James
say hello hello all seems to be working all right well hey thanks everyone for
joining us today we're gonna run through this webinar about this most recent
release on ether scope but first just a quick review for those of you who are
not familiar with the ether scope we call ether scope a portable network
expert this comes from our long line of history and legacy of developing
handheld tools since we were originally part of fluke networks our brief
transition to being under part of net scout but stood up as an independent
company last summer as net Ally and immediately following that we launched
the ether scope last fall and it is a multi technology all-in-one handheld
network analyzer enabling engineers and technicians to do more of their jobs
done faster ether scope combines both wired and wireless network analysis up
to 10 gig on the wired side as well as the Wi-Fi analysis people use this for
everything from infrastructure deployment and maintenance validating
ads moves and changes troubleshooting and documenting their network so we're
going to get into the details about what the latest software release is for this
version 1.2 which entails four major new capabilities but before I get into
talking about those details as we go along here do feel free to use the Q&A
tab to ask questions we've got James standing by also one of our product
managers Julio Petrovich will also be watching for questions we'll try to get
to those as we go along the way and if not catch up all right so for major new
capabilities number one Wi-Fi site surveying with the air mapper app now we
first introduced this and told everyone that it
coming at the WL PC conference in Phoenix in February so the release of
that fulfills that promise so we'll talk a lot about that got a lot of excitement
around that capability other major feature monitoring for intermittent
issues solving intermittent problems on a network is one of the most difficult
tasks that a network professional has and we'll talk about a key capability
for that we've created a simplified access anywhere remote control
methodology and the ability to do multi giggling validation there's a whole slew
of their feature of other feature enhancements least 22 by my count
various functions from auto test to performance testing we might get the
chance if we have time to mention a few of those at the end and a key point to
make the release is free to all ether scope and XG owners some of the features
with respect to doing heat maps in Lync live are enabled by Alli care that's our
support program we'll get into the details of what that means and which
capabilities those are alright so let's get into the air mapper app and doing
heat mapping in Lync live view but it bits of slide where first and then we'll
get into doing a live demo but bottom line we consider this a better way to
survey your Wi-Fi doesn't require the use of a laptop it's all in the palm of
your hand there's no dongle there's no separate
antenna or other device that needs to be connected it's all in the handheld form
factor of the ether scope and you don't need an external tethered device it's
all in the palm of your hand a couple of our friends of the industry have weighed
in with their review we've had folks like Blake on our beta program who's
tested out the software and Blake indicates from his point of view it
makes an extremely portable wireless testing platform Blake's a big fan of
the auto test feature that automates both wired and wireless testing and
points out that correlation is crucial when collecting data and that air mapper
enhances our auto test with that critical location data
showing where the test was performed also our friendly Badman has done some
testing for us and his statement here is that it's an another extremely useful
dimension to what he believes is the best overall network support tool on the
market right now he points out the data collection is
easy and link life makes using that data from anywhere possible since it's based
in the web and there's no other hardware requirements needed sight surveying is
just one more tool in the impressive inventory of ether scope NX G's
capabilities so let's get into the details so what is air mapper site
survey so this is an app that runs on the ether scope and XG which is an
android based platform and bottom line is this is a simpler faster easier way
to survey and visualize and document your Wi-Fi network everything's all in
one write from as I mentioned the wired testing and wire side wired side
analysis that we can do including Wi-Fi and now in addition to troubleshooting
we can help with the surveying function of validating a Wi-Fi network without
needing some external device it's a ruggedized product so you don't
have to worry about damaging your phone or your tablet or carrying around a
laptop and one thing you're gonna see here that has really impressed me with
the job that our engineers have done on this it's incredibly fast and we'll see
that in real time how quickly you can go from taking samples to seeing the heat
map and updating that heat map and working with that heat map and Link live
which is where the heat maps are driven one other point I'll make is that our
air check g2 one of the markets favorite
troubleshooting tools for Wi-Fi this capability will also be available on air
check g2 in version 5 and that's due out this summer so stay tuned for
announcements about that as we get closer to that date
so heat tapping in link live so what we're gonna
do is show you how you can create the survey data from an air mapper and then
upload that data to the link live cloud service link live is a cloud-based
service that collects test information from all of our handheld testers there's
a lot of benefits for that one is no matter where those test instruments are
throughout the world whenever anybody in your organization
runs a test that information is uploaded into Lync live so you get centralized
visibility of your distributed test environment and as I mentioned you're
going to see how fast it is to get that data up get it processed and be working
on those heat maps in Lync live and as it's a web-based system right no
operating system restrictions if you can access it via the web you're in and your
entire team can be a part of this too so it enables collaboration with those
surveyors in the field and this is what that looks like and there's basically
you know four key functions here one is determining what type of map you'd like
to look at the signal or basically the coverage map is available to all users
but the more in-depth visualizations of noise SNR transmission and reception
rates those are provided to our customers with a like air support
similarly with respect to filters filtering on SSID everybody gets that
and that's handy but the additional filter capabilities are also for
customers with ally care on the lower left-hand corner here you see that you
can set a threshold for your visualization either enter the numeric
number in the box below or simply click in the slider bar to adjust the V
threshold for that visualization and we'll see that in real time here shortly
and then the ability to quickly and easily generate reports pretty
straightforward now let's talk about who this is for we
talked about this being an easier faster simpler way to do site surveys but this
doesn't necessarily replace a dedicated planning or survey software tool there's
plenty of folks who need the capability to create predictive models and that's
what a product like survey Pro the air magnet survey Pro product does and for
folks that are Wi-Fi specialists they're doing this all day long as their core
function the core function their their job or their company to do Wi-Fi
integration this is not necessarily a replacement for that because it doesn't
do planning it is strictly a survey tool so for those people who are full-time
users got large sites complex sites complex surveys multi floor and all of
that the ability to import a CAD drawing do predictive planning and going through
that workflow of planning an installation installing and surveying
and validating that installation creating a report ultimately to get paid
for the job there's a time and a place for that kind
of capability and that's why we still have as many of you maybe attended
Julio's webinar last week about the most recent release of the air magnet
software products that we have but there's also a place for this kind of
capability in a way you might say it's site survey for the rest of us for
in-house Network operation staff those people who operate as as IT generalists
who need to be able to very quickly validate changes to the network or
create heat maps for the purpose of troubleshooting without the need to use
a complex powerful the time-consuming site survey and planning product so the
ability to quickly do a survey for troubleshooting and to validate changes
that's what we see the use model for air map or as there's also managed service
providers or small systems integrators who may see this as a better way to do
very quick small-scale site surveys for the purposes of generating with some of
them call a a network birth certificate here's my evidence to my customer that
says I've deployed your wireless network it's covering your facility here's the
performance factors of that network in the documentation for that job the other
aspect that we see as an important market for this is OAM equipment
installers or field technicians for companies that sell capital equipment
basically that might be everything from warehouse automation equipment to
medical imaging equipment and invariably those people often get into
finger-pointing discussions with their client customers because they're running
into latent Network issues about on their client networks and find that
their equipment is having trouble connecting or not not enough performance
and they need a way to be able to deflect that blame and yet still come up
with a reasonable way of showing what the root cause of those problems are
so we see this tool as being a very useful tool for those people who are
working on other people's networks as a way to very quickly create those
visualizations so not to belabor the point right it's for the occasional
survey user smaller plans less complex plans validating installations so really
a way to provide fast simple visualization of the RF space for those
people so let's get into it now I'm going to switch over to
we're going to switch over to connecting remotely to one of our ether
scopes that we have in a test network and James is going to pitch in here too
as I go along here we're remotely connected to an either scope that we've
got in our offices in Colorado Springs and I'm going to launch into the air
mapper application now you note I've already got a floorplan loaded in here
but I certainly am able to load new floor plans by going into the settings
menu and importing floor plans into my ether scope and I've already done that
so I don't need to do that here you could put a name in for this survey will
call this webinar survey and we can description I won't bother with that but
the other factor here that we might change is our signal propagation now
what you'll see in the air mapper UI is that wherever we take a sample a circle
will appear on the map showing the sample area and it's a good idea to
scale the size of that sample area to your facility in a small office facility
like the sample floor plan that I'm working here I'm gonna scale that down
so that I get multiple samples covering the entire office space in a larger
facility I might choose to have a larger signal propagation radius bottom line is
is that the more samples I take the more data I'm going to have and the more
accurate my survey is going to be so we'll just go with that
and the other thing you may want to check is in the general settings for
ether scope we can now in this version of software make a selection about what
Wi-Fi bands and channels we're going to scan as part of our survey now in most
cases you're going to want to have that set fairly broadly because you're going
to want to be able to see any neighbor networks or all the APS
and all the channels that are in use for your network for the purpose of this
demonstration though I'm simply gonna pick the 2.4 gigahertz band and go with
that I'm tellin what I'm gonna up my 12 time not dwell time is the amount of
time that the ether scope and the air mapper app will observe a particular
channel before it moves on to the next and if you look in the upper left hand
corner you can see that at this point we're still scanning through all of the
bands both in 2.4 and the 5 gigahertz band so all the channels in those bands
but as soon as I select this and ok then we're simply going to be scanning the
2.4 gigahertz range as soon as we start alright so back to air mapper and just
for the visualization I'm going to rotate that map here there's one other
setting I didn't show which is the scaling of the map and that's simply the
ability to tell air mapper what the height and width of your floorplan is
you only have to enter in one of those parameters and aromatic air macro will
scale the map to your building size the other dimension and I find that it's
also important to use an image that is cropped tight to the walls of the
building that just makes it easier to see but of course since this is an
Android device so you can always zoom in with your you know two fingers zoom in
to get a finer resolution if you're looking at a very large floorplan just
zoom in on the screen and then we're simply going to start click the start
button and we'll just start here in the entrance of this building and click for
a sample I think actually you know what and James will probably correct me if
I'm wrong I think what I should have done here is adjust my building size
because I think my my drawing
is not scaled correctly yeah that would be that's a good point so we're gonna
change this factor we're gonna say this is about 95 feet
you and notice how okay it's my image is in
the wide format I had rotated it so this is going to make this go a little bit
smoother and we'll go back to the floorplan and you can see how that
scaled up my sample size right it scaled my wifemy propagation signal propagation
radius to cover a bit more of the floorplan because I corrected the size
of my building so bottom line this is what I do I simply walk the facility the
sample turning red tells me that either scope is collecting data and when it
turns green that tells me it's completed collecting data for that particular
sample area and I can simply move throughout my facility taking more
samples and again the larger my signal propagation radius the fewer samples I
would need to take but for the point of granularity you can keep it small and
take more samples
James I'll just open it up to you at this point to see if you've got any
commentary to add as we go through and start collecting some of this data yes
I'll say this so we started this first release with sample click we're doing a
variety of improvements here for continuous sampling and and paths and
things like that so you'll see here shortly in fact in a very upcoming
additional release that that this will be literally instantaneous because it'll
be using the the currently scanned values instead of gathering a new set of
data
right on so instead of just the click to sample we're actually going to be
continuously sampling between those clicks is that correct correct great and
so that's basically it now sometimes what I found is that I'm a fat finger a
sample and I might click in a place on the map that is not a logical place like
on top of a set of cubicle walls so it's pretty simple to just use the back arrow
to undo that sample and then I can simply be a little bit more careful with
my clicking like I said you can always zoom in to tap and collect that sample
that's basically it on the air map or side of things on the ether scope when I
hit stop I'm gonna now upload that information until the link live but
before I do that I thought I would just show you the link live product so link
live again is this cloud-based service that we offer where the test results
from any one of our testers whether that's an ether scope or an air check or
a links printer or link runner are all uploaded for documentation and for
collaboration and the new feature of course is the air mapper capability
inside of link live so I wanted to pull this up here just to show you ok so the
last survey we had done here that uploaded into link live was yesterday
I'm going to go back over to my ether scope I'm gonna click the upload to link
live button and we're gonna webinar April 28 and I will just leave the Rudy
job comment the way it is
and save to air mapper files now as soon as I click this I'm going to go over to
link live it's going to take just a moment but you're going to see that
survey information upload into link live
you
and while we're waiting let's go over to take a look at what that heat map looks
like so when we get that survey loaded quick check when we get that survey
loaded what you're going to see is the ability to I'm on the wrong one sorry
we simply select the data from the surveys click the view survey button
and then link live will populate the map with those samples now in this case we
just RM that we're on the default coverage map with no filters applied we
can manipulate the drawing zoom in zoom out as your browser allows but we may
want to look at a different visualization like signal-to-noise ratio
so soup we're simply going to click down into that pull up that visualization and
maybe let's apply a filter in this case let's go to just to make it simple pull
our guest SSID in here and now we're filtering down into this
guest SSID and these filters are stackable of course we can add in any
number of filters if we want to filter on band on channel B SSID specific AP's
type of wireless LAN or channel width we can add any one of those filters in to
the filter stack
and then I mentioned the threshold bar so I can all I really need to do is
click into this threshold bar in order to set a threshold and this is a very
useful way to be able to visualize what might the impact beyond my network if it
will a number one if I need to set a specific threshold for a particular
metric or if my network degrades in any fashion what are the parts of my network
which would see that impact first you
so James again any color commentary you want to add at this point or something
else that you'd like me to show about that capability yeah again looking
forward a lot of new heat map types particularly working on interference and
so but the filtering is very powerful because as Dan mentioned it's a cable
you can say just this SSID and just on these channel and just on channel 6 and
sort of see coverage there to to verify 2.4 gig coverage on different channels
and and and and that filter set stays intact as you change your views in terms
of different eat map types and what type of you mentioned the survey the change
to the survey methodology going to a continuous we could probably go ahead
and talk about what the the other visualizations are that we're coming up
with soon yeah so specifically the interference heat maps coat channel and
adjacent channel interference and Dan if you if you move your mouse around or you
you see the fly over on
I think yeah there we go so so as you move your mouse around you can see the
actual flyover and then this is of course more interactive when it's not
traversing the country a few times but but you could imagine flying over this
and that's showing you the number of the number of co-channel interference on
channel interferes there are on and so the heat may have the heat the scale
will be driven by a number of interferes number devices on the same channel on
the same SSID all sorts of things like that cool and then too
another factor that we want to share another capability we'll want to take a
look at is the fact that in addition to that flyover data that we're showing we
can click on a specific sample area tell you what I'm gonna get rid of my filter
to make this a bit more interesting and hit apply so when we select on a
specific sample area we're also getting this data table that is showing that
collected data behind that sample area and this is also manipulatable we can
simply sort by the column headings by channel SSID you can see all of the data
that's here and that's also filterable too so if they're I don't know why
Julio's name Chuck crops up here but if I want to filter down on a particular
SSID I can simply add that to the filter if I'm looking for a particular MAC
address I can filter on that basically any value that's in the data table I can
instantly create a filter for and James how do you envision the use of that
particular information a lot of times there's there's another table or
continue to add to in fact in the next release next month you'll see that we
have the arrow 2.11 type here so you know a lot of times you just need to
drill in and see what's actually driving the heat and this just gives you a way
to to drill into that also this table can is included in a report and so if
you you can generate not only heat map but but this table for whatever point
you choose to highlight on the heat map
cool so let's see here so what I've done is gone back and collecting a bit more
survey data on the side over here as I've been showing this maybe pull this
back over
and let's rerun this upload hey while you do that I'll jump in these so so our
intent here was that this is a very flexible run control so in fact when Dan
gets to their mode you'll see that you could even be driving this survey with
somebody just walking the floor remotely because we have a separate Wi-Fi
management radio you can basically gather points that person can you can
push to link live you could be looking at it and link live then you could just
decide hey we didn't quite get some corner of the building over here or you
can resume gather more points again push to link live and so just because the the
uploads are so fast and and because we sort of separated that you know we sort
of close the gap in terms of distance where it doesn't matter where the
service is being taken and where the service is being analyzed it's very easy
to to iterate through this and and and add incrementally it isn't just a once
you push you're done with that survey you think you can just keep going you
could add a couple of data points push the link live undo undo undo take those
away continue on so a lot just a lot of flexibility and to run control here and
since you mentioned that I'm going to go ahead and do that we'll push this back
up to link live
so the job comment here is that we call it our sticky comment and it would save
dan from entering this this every time right so when you set a job comment that
means that everything that comes off of the Box buta survey a capture an auto
test result a discovery snapshot everything gets labeled with that so it
makes it really easy to to find all activity around a certain site or a
particular task that you were performing and there's that data so let's go ahead
and view that survey and so you can see that I've gone ahead
and added those additional data points here
now understand is James pointed out I mean I could be doing this where I am
doing this remotely on an ether scope that's sitting somewhere in the Stute in
our little demo studio in our Colorado Springs office since it's not mobile of
course it's gathering the same exact data every single time but with ether
scope connected to the Wi-Fi network using one of its radios its management
radio I could literally be doing this site survey remotely being as that ether
scrubs being walked around I could be observing what the technician walking
that unit around is doing at that remote site just like I am here collecting that
data remotely from my ether scope and automatically pumping it up into linked
live to create that visualization
so James got a couple of questions here like what format do floor plans have to
be produced in or address that well we yes Oh currently it's a JPEG or PNG a
couple things one is we have the camera in the ether scope and so you could
always take a picture of a fire escape map or an office plan that would be an
easy way to just have it on the unit and of course in time we'll we would expand
this out to import things like PDF and and another popular formats I'll say one
other thing we actually have a Google Earth in the app store and you can
actually if you're doing an outdoor thing you can actually get the
screenshot you want on Google Earth zooming in capture the screen and then
immediately do a survey off of that with note with no additional tools
we may maybe we'll show that at the the next webinar once we release the
additional visualizations we could show how that can be done as well so that's
basically it is the ability to quickly walk a facility I saw one question is
you know how long would it take us to do a survey for a building like this you
know I time is dependent on a couple of things one is how many of those channels
that you're scanning and in the dwell time that you're spending per channel
and then how many samples you're going to take but I could easily see that
doing a building of this size may take 10 or 15 minutes and then the upload to
link live is pretty quick we can have our laptop connected to that network we
can go up to link live and see the results as they come in I could easily
see you could be to the point of from the point of starting to run that survey
to the point of generating the document yeah you probably do the cert site
survey of a building the size in about 20 minutes I think that's certainly
within reason
so I see also that there's a question about the rollout to the G to the air
check G to again James I think our plan is that that is going to be released
sometime this summer I think where plan is that that would be out probably mid
q3 August timeframe at this point yeah that's that's correct and the UI will
will be identical to what you're seeing here similar workflow similar process
same settings will tell you what there's a couple other features that I wanted to
cover before we wrap up but we think we said this webinar was going to be about
45 minutes long we got about 10 minutes more so I'll just wrap up about some of
the other capabilities first off wrapping up why air mapper because it's
a multi-function tool maybe you're tired of paying too much for single function
tools perhaps you don't need the complexity of a full-blown site
surveying and planning solution you realize you need a faster way to
visualize your network for troubleshooting purposes or maybe you
don't have a way to quickly visualize your network for troubleshooting so this
provides a viable option for that and the other aspect to that a lot of our
customers recognize is you've got to solve problems on both sides of the
access point and having the capability to do not only Wi-Fi test an analysis
and now Wi-Fi site surveying but all of the in-depth wired line wireline
analysis capabilities that we have with ether scope means it really truly is
that that all-in-one tool so there you go the simplest quickest easiest way to
identify problem berries in your Wi-Fi network is by getting that visualization
and as James pointed out got more enhancements coming soon so real quickly
the 24-hour monitoring for intermittent issues one of the capabilities that
we've added now is the ability to a periodic auto test so this basically
lets us program ether scopes Auto tests to run at a specified interval over a
specified period of time and as I was showing you all of this test data is
uploaded into linked live so now you get the ability
to run this testing and this is both wired and wireless testing it's not just
one or the other it can be both and then use filtering in linked live to sort on
the data you've collected you can use this in conjunction with certain
trending graphs that we have to look for problem correlation whether that's Wi-Fi
traffic as an example or the utilization of a particular switch port and then
we've also added the capability to get notified when problems occur so for that
particular ether scope you can set the link live service to send you an email
when a problem occurs so this is a really handy way to be notified when
ether scope is out there running an auto test to be looking for those
intermittent issues and get notified when those issues happen so helps you
know when those issues are happening having the data to drill into those
intermittent problems it's also a really great way to understand baselining
of your network that's a key capability knowledge I should say to know what
normal is on your network the worst thing is to not know what normal is when
you're troubleshooting and finding a problem it had been in existence for a
long time and you waste your time trying to troubleshoot that so knowing what
normal is and knowing how those metrics can vary over time a couple of key
purposes behind auto test
let's also talk about this access anywhere remote control this is
basically a ability to remotely control an ether scope through link live so in
addition to the ability to generate heat maps we've got the ability to connect to
an ether scope remotely through link live now we've always had the capability
to control ether scope through VNC which is great works when your workstation is
on the same network or you've got a route to talk to that ether scope in
your network but you it's just not possible to connect to an ether scope at
distant sites if you're not on the same network such as be here at home
connecting through a wireless router that's providing that for me if that is
on the network I'm talking to then I've just got no way to connect my way of B
and C but using this Web remote control through Lync live acting as an
intermediary I'm able to instantly connect to that either scope remotely
through the link live cloud service so again very handy when like in current
days travel is restricted if not impossible
if I've got an ether scope out at my remote site I can simply connect to it
to be able to do that troubleshooting and as you saw even site surveying from
remote a remote connection and then the last big capability that we've added in
this release is SNR cable test for multi gigs so we know a lot about multi gig
being deployed to help support higher bandwidth to our access points so
delivering better than one gig link speed to those ApS or perhaps it's for
certain IOT devices or their mechanics that require higher bandwidth than one
gig so this is what multi gig is for to deliver two-and-a-half five and even up
to ten gigabits per second essentially a way of delivering new or more bandwidth
over old media but not all cable plants support this and what we're hearing from
a lot of customer and some infrastructure vendors is that
people are being a bit surprised or they're bit in the dark about whether or
not their cable plant will support multi gig or it's not linking at the speed
that they're expecting or in some cases even bouncing links at all preventing
linking from happening at those high speeds at all
so either down shifting to lower speeds or bouncing links it's difficult to
troubleshoot and I reference this network computing article you can take a
look at there's a really good job of summarizing the technology and the per
and the requirements to be able to support multi gig so how can you
troubleshoot this well that's why we've added this capability to do a
signal-to-noise ratio test on the link to be able to tell what that factor is
so from our auto test doing a wired link test where we normally and we'll show
the link speed the advertised speed the actual speed that we linked at and the
duplex now we're also showing both the delay skew for the each channel in multi
gig and the signal-to-noise ratio as measured and if everything's fine great
you know threshold the default threshold is 5 dB but if that fails you can see
what that looks like if there's a failed result or a ammeter that does not meet
that threshold so being able to validate that those cabling links for multi gig
to be able to help troubleshoot why you're not getting the speeds that you
expect this is going to be a tremendous capability to be able to look for that
particular factor that could be causing those switch links to downshift or
bounce Jane any other comment on that capability or
the others that I just mentioned yeah so you know there's a great we're showing
individual features here there's a great some of the parts were you know one plus
one equals two and or three and a good example that is doing this signal to
noise measurement it's on every auto test you can set the threshold you know
this SNR by the way is going to be driven by a couple things one is alien
crosstalk which is how the cable runs in the bundle it's gonna be a function of
the quality of the installed cable because think about it you gotta have
the patch cables the patch panels the horizontal cabling you know all the
punch downs all that need to be you know correct and appropriate with with with
it not too much on twisting and things like that there's also a lot of impulse
noise that we're finding out it's affecting and bastey coming off a static
off of chairs could be an air conditioner turning on and so you can
take a test like this and then combine it with the periodic auto test which we
call rinse and repeat internally and and basically you can say hey for 24 hours
every minute I want to basically link to this switch and then if any time if any
and that's 3600 test results and push to link live easy to filter Dan sort of
showed the email alert you can say hey sand then send me an alert if if I ever
don't meet that SNR s literally what you're saying and so this ability to
sort of combine the SNR measurement with threshold setting and even though we're
talking about a kind of a low-level layer one setting here it could be that
you're you know you can set thresholds on on the time that it takes to pull an
entire webpage right the thresholds exist throughout throughout the product
layer one through seven tests run them over and over again and get notified and
you may figure out that hey it's like every hour or every two hours or two in
the morning is is when this is when the SNR is impacted so just a lot of ability
to sort of take what's typically a dispatch instantaneous tool and turn it
into a into kind of a lightweight monitoring system
in James I do need to help clarify something so and maybe there's some
confusion caused by the quote from Blake about autotest strictly using the the
term autotest in either scope we refer to what we're
seeing on the screen right now right this is an auto test profile where ether
scope can do a variety of wired Network tests and a variety of wireless tests
like the air quality profile or validate some specific SSID and I think there was
some confusion that is there some linkage between this auto test and the
samples that we're taking with the air mapper app and I want to be clear that
not exactly but maybe you could help clarify that and tell us how might you
use auto test this auto test function on a wireless network into conjunction with
the site survey yeah so site survey is it's in your hand you're walking around
you're gathering the data you can then do any post analysis that you want auto
test is really more of a connectivity test you're either you're either
connecting on the wired network or a Wi-Fi network or running this air
quality test but if you come back out to the top level Dan the please the what's
nice about this is you can run this periodic gotta test on on any number of
individual profiles there we go and and a profile can be can be wired or Wi-Fi
and in fact in version 1.2 amongst those 22 features dan mentioned we added the
ability to to actually select the band for an SSID so you could say I want to
test my production SSID and I want to do it on 2.4 and I want to do that on 5 gig
and oh by the way I've got a hooked up on the wired and I want to do that and
then all of those tests can actually although can can leverage the same
target tests within so I want to pull an entire webpage and I want to
and how that compares between 2.4 gig 5 gig and wired and then and then and then
when you layer this periodic thing I want to do that over and over again and
let me know if any of those networks any of those three access methods ever
failed the response time on an FTP poll or an HTTP pull or or an SNR measurement
any time during that period so there's just a lot of ability and versatility
here to stack up and build any sort of a profile that you want and and run it
over time and then and then get a notification of any one-off failure
awesome cool well I see that we're about over the time that we had intended
I think Julio's been doing a great job of answering some of the questions on
the side
James any other last points that you'd like to make before we wrap this up
yeah I'd say stay tuned you know we've got a for those you've been following
along we launched the product in October we had a robust 1.1 release in January
again here we are back in in April with 1.2 release adding four major functions
and and you know we're just gonna continue adding capabilities you know
certainly survey is is it as a deep roadmap right these these are products
with that are on version tens right so active survey performance survey I saw
the comment adding a note adding a picture during the survey addition elite
map types you know it just goes on and on right and we're just sort of taking
those down in a prioritized order so so stay tuned in the in the survey space
for 41.3 in the future and and and we appreciate everybody attending today
awesome thanks yes again thanks everybody for attending and watch this
space for more improvements on ether scope and air mapper hope you all have a
great day thanks signing off thank you
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