ekahau Site Survey 9.0 released!

ekahau released version 9.0 with new features:

• High Capacity Planner: The easiest yet the most comprehensive Wi-Fi capacity planning tool
  • Easily set capacity requirements with the new requirement area tool straight from the toolbar – All you need to know is how many devices your network would need to support
  • If needed, you can always go advanced and define your capacity requirements in very detailed manner through “Area options”
  • You may also customize the client details to your liking – or use our pre-made defaults for quick setup
  • Fine-tune the Network configuration in Project-menu to enable the planner to accurately calculate management traffic overhead
• All New Auto-Planner: Avoids AP overpopulation & hallway placement, disables 2.4 GHz radios, and utilizes dual 5 GHz operation mode when possible.
  • Create plans with multiple different types of coverage and capacity area requirements in one go
    • Multiple different coverage requirements also supported
  • Seamless integration with the new capacity features
  • Ability to plan for dual 5 GHz access points, such as Cisco AP3802i and Aerohive AP250
  • Improved accuracy and results on created plans
• Channel-Planner 2.0: Vastly improved performance and speed! More options for your channel plan!
  • Fully customizable channel planner – You can now disable individual channels such as 120, 124, and 128
  • Plan channels for individual floors!
  • Channel plans are now calculated much faster!
• New & improved capacity visualizations: Both new and reworked capacity visualization for more powerful capacity analysis
  • New visualization: Airtime utilization. This visualization shows you in clear and user-friendly manner how fully utilized the channels and radios currently are given your current capacity requirements. Check out the tooltips with both bands enabled and with just one band enabled!
  • Improved visualizations: Capacity: Clients per AP & Capacity health: These visualization have been reworked with user-friendliness and clarity in mind, so judging the state of your Wi-Fi capacity is easier than ever before!
• Area-specific coverage requirements: Different areas can now each have their own set of coverage requirements, clients, & visualizations
  • Increased flexibility to plan for capacity & requirements on area-by-area basis, instead of earlier global settings
  • Different areas also show different heatmaps based directly on the assigned coverage requirements – You can now check with a glance if all of your requirements are met!
  • Please note: Old global coverage requirements are still used if you don’t use any requirement areas on the map – You can no longer use global capacity settings but instead must assign the clients directly in the areas

• Improvements:
  • Improved UI for increased usability and clarity
  • Requirement & exclusion area tools (previously called coverage areas) have gone through a complete usability overhaul – No more weird tiny gaps between areas or weird off-kilter angles!
  • Area notes have been removed from note tools and integrated to requirement area tool
  • “Requested/Accepted associations” setting has been removed from “Clients per AP” visualization due to it’s opaque and unclear nature
  • Support Realtek chip based adapters has been improved
  • “Cinder block” has been added to default wall types
  • Improved Aruba radio combination logic
  • Improved “Smooth” visualizations for several heatmap types: Airtime utilization, Associated APs, Clients per AP, Capacity Health, Channel coverage and many more!
• Fixed issues:
  • You can no longer auto-plan a building with empty floors, which previously led to errors
  • Coverage requirements fields no longer accept invalid values
  • Setting too small scale on a map no longer leads to error in auto-planner or channel planner
  • Leaving too small coverage area fragments on the map no longer produces errors in auto-planner
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes
• New access points and antennas:
  • Cisco AP1815W, AP2702E + AIR-ANT2524DW-R, and AP3702E + AIR-ANT2544V4M-R
  • Aerohive AP550 and Aerohive AH-ACC-1130-ANT-18
  • Aruba ANT-3×3-5712
  • Hirschmann BAT867-R
  • LigoWave NFT 3ac
  • Peplink Balance One, Pepwave AP One Rugged, Pepwave AP One In-Wall, Pepwave AP One Enterprise, Pepwave AP One Flex and Pepwave Ap One Ac Mini