CTS 355: Exposing the Real Wi-Fi Issue

From Clear To Send: Wireless Network Engineering Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès

Rowell recently deployed new Mist AP45 access points in a car manufacturing facility.

The IT team had successfully performed testing prior to the installation but we ran into multiple issues after mounting over 70 access points.

The Mist dashboard exposed a number of issues:

* DHCP Timed Out

* DHCP Inform Timed Out

* Association issues

* Missing VLANs

Additionally, users who joined to Wi-Fi stated they did not have Internet.

The issues led to a network audit which exposed the Wi-Fi issues.