Need Mouting Help or Suggestions

[Rgrandmaison]

Hello all,

I'm new to this forum and I had some questions I would greatly appreciate some help with.

So for starters I am a somewhat of a beginner in the wireless engineering world and I have been doing site surveys for my company for about 7-8 months. My most recent survey had somewhat of some challenging obstacles. Almost all my AP's need to be mounted onto an exposed ceiling and the problem is in most locations there are a lot of obstructions like cable tray, piping, air ducting, and etc. so those access points need to be mounted below the obstructions for best propagation and that could range anyway from one to five feet below the building steel. I've been trying to do a lot of research on different mounts and brackets and haven't really found what I'm looking for. I have seen some people using threaded rod and attaching that to the Cisco mount and was wondering if any company makes a specific mount for something like this. My customer wants a straight forward solution and wants to avoid anything big and bulky since aesthetics is also a concern with this project. I should mention that we are using a 3700 series for this.

Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions. I would like this to go well for me and my customer.

[Freerk Terpstra]

As you may already have discovered: performing wireless site-surveys is an art, especially in production and warehouse environments. The antennas should be as close as possible to the client as you already described, but without any obstructions nearby nor the possibility to get hit by any goods or forklifts. And what about the temperatures or the possibilities to even get the network cables to the elected locations while keeping it under 100 meters?

Due to all of these requirements there is no "one size fits all" when it comes to mounting. When Iowering the access-points with threaded rod is not an option, you can try to work with external (omni) antennas instead so it can be mounted vertical on the wall. Make your design and perform a walk trough with the contractors who will perform the actual mounting to discuss the options and educate them about correct installation.

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