User guide

March 2005 Managing Your Canopy Network
Through Software Release 6.1
Page 346 of 425 Issue 1
Canopy System User Guide
later by clicking on Expanded Stats in the navigation column, then clicking on Frame
Calculator (at the bottom of the expanded navigation column).
The calculator does not use data on the module or populate new data. It is merely a
convenience application running on the module. For this reason, you can use any module
running Release 6.1 or later to do the calculations for any AP. Running the calculator on
the AP in question is not necessary.
Figure 126 and Figure 127 show how to use the calculator to discover values of
Downlink Data percentage that will put all the Uplink Rcv SQ Start values within the
required 300 time bits.
IMPORTANT!
APs with slightly mismatched transmit/receive ratios and low levels of
data traffic may see little effect on throughput. As the data traffic
increases, the impact of mismatched transmit/receive ratios will increase.
This means that a system that wasn’t tuned for collocation may work fine
at low traffic levels, but have issues at higher traffic level. The
conservative practice is to tune for collocation from the beginning, and
prevent future problems as sectors are built out and traffic increases.