User Guide

The Alcatel RF Plan Tool 37
Defining Areas
Before you advance to the AP and AM Planning pages you will want to define
special areas.
In this section you will learn how to define areas where you either do not want
to physically deploy (Don’t Deploy) an AP, or where you don’t care if there is
coverage or not.
In this exercise we will assume that we:
z Don’t care if we have coverage in the Shipping and Receiving areas.
z Don’t want to deploy APs or AMs in the Lobby Area
Create a Don’t Care Area
Go back to the AP Planning page.
Click on AP Plan in the Feature Tree at the left side of the browser window.
Click the “New” link in the Areas box.
The link is located below the lower left corner of the floor plan in the AP
Planning window. This opens the Area Editor.
Type Shipping and Receiving in the Name text box in the Area
Editor.
Select “Don’t Care” from the Type pull-down menu box.
Click the Apply button.
Notice that an orange box appears near the center of the floor plan.
Use your mouse (or other pointing device) to place the cursor
over the box.
Notice that the information you typed in the editor appears in the box. You will
see the name and type of area, as well as the coordinates of the lower left
corner and upper right corner of the box.
N
OTE—The x = 0 and y = 0 coordinates correspond to the lower left corner of
the layout space.
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