 We plugged in the fiber and it works which is a great intro to actually say we finish the job We finish the job here. We go there It's done. So you're seeing the end result now I didn't do I really have the time to do a time lapse we talked about flying the drone around here And this is a cool warehouse. Don't get me wrong that we just wired for Wi-Fi. It's quite big I'll leave the dimensions. I'll throw them on the screen or some things. I don't have them handy right now I'd say I don't I don't get wrong, but we cover this whole building a Wi-Fi now This is the full cycle and let's talk about this process. We talked about the sales videos We talked about sales that this guy sold the job here And so this started as we had a customer about a year ago the same customer one of the other warehouses They wanted a bid and the bid was for fixing the Wi-Fi But I right away seen the problem they were having was with the device is connecting to it Not with the Wi-Fi So I said I can't give you a proposal because it won't solve the problem Here's your problem, and they guy goes, but I got two other proposals from other companies that also research Should I say well, I don't know I'm just telling you it won't fix it and after he did the follow the links of research I said he realized hey, you're right But these old devices won't roam properly because they're don't have 802.11 R Right, so he appreciated the honesty even though it turned into a no-sale It was a big project then the phone rings and we handed over to Brett and Brett takes care of this because turns out You got new equipment that way it bought a new warehouse Well, they got they bought they got a new warehouse here And I do know the dimensions all the way down to that end is 800 feet from where we're standing Okay, this building is 400 feet wide. Oh, so he knows the dimensions. It's um, that's it's a pretty large place that we put 46 wireless acts unified wireless access points inside and 12 surrounding the building Unified pro mesh access points as well because they wanted Wi-Fi outside as well In the way it is is all the high lows are gonna have they have this well They got new ones now. Yeah, they have essentially a tablet type system is why we describe it But the high lows have a constant connection to Wi-Fi So as these truck come in the dock and move out of the dock they need a constant connection So when it comes to wireless planning and heat map, it's actually pretty easy You can just measure the distance between them and we know this place will be filled with racks So all the Wi-Fi's are mounted pretty close to ceiling because well The racks are gonna go almost as high as the ceiling in here So we couldn't drop them down ideally you may and I have seen people do this You bring the Wi-Fi down from the ceiling a bit because you can get it the goal is always have it closer But when we know that the racks are gonna be close to ceiling height We don't want anything in a way or them, you know with the high low as they pull things off They're hitting it so when it comes to that part of the planning on that's how that part works It's all going to be It's all the salt actually likes it's all finished But they're all mounted at full ceiling height and that's the reason why people question it now There's redundant fiber links that we didn't run good news as they were already here But it turns out some of stuff this wasn't plugged in when the previous people left They didn't just unplug it They unplugged even the patch cables for the fiber and one of them wasn't we found a mislabel and we fixed it It was supposed well We do we know what the customer thought it went and we found out where it actually went now They have it because they wanted not just fiber. They wanted us to plug them all in redundantly So it was up and running but not redundantly up and running with each connection So every connection to every one of the IDFs is there so I'm gonna switch over to So this project is actually well the project I started in a warehouse is now done This is being filmed about 40 days later now that project got done delivered works High-loads are all attached to the Wi-Fi things are working the warehouse has racks in it It's not as empty as one in a video. Why am I following up 30 days later? Well, it's not just time or almost 40 days later It's not just time It's also we didn't get approved for the next project until the first project worked and something It's important to be on this channel is not that we just talk about planning something but we talk about Planning deployment did your plan work? That's a real important aspect when you're reviewing something is yeah I can put something on paper and say well, that's really good. The marketing people said This is the specs and the sales people said this would work But of course once you get down to the engineering did it work and the answer is yes And one of the things that first people are going to ask and this is the second project And we're going to talk about it here real quick is unify apc lr's. Why do we go with these versus hds? Well really simple. We needed a high density because when you have all these racks and cages put up and the cages are Holding a lot of metal parts in them So it's like a Gaylord style box if you're not familiar with warehousing terms or like a palette that's for me is three feet tall But there's like a metal cage around me have seen things like this with also metal parts in there And they just saturates It sucks up all the Wi-Fi it's like a Faraday cage almost so we have a lot of these Wi-Fi It's going up and down the rows, but there's not a lot of high lows So you don't need the HD unifies for example because well the HDs are cool But they they're high density these actually have plenty of range and there's like I said not that many high lows in there So that's why we went with these on the outside ones Well the pros aren't that much more expensive So we went with these and they have a good density and they're gonna have a guest network Of course drivers and things like that and the high lows do sometimes go outside and actually go into the trucks So these are placed around the docks now that first project done Next project is another warehouse same company owns it now. They have their own internal IT So this is kind of our pre-deployment steps that happen first We get all these set up adopted and I know it looks kind of messy Well, it's temporary and I took over my studio for this because there wasn't enough room in the tech area to put all of them and Once they have that piece done and they have them all adopted upgraded planned We set them up on our internal controller Then we're gonna go and deploy these and we have I'm holding the labels in there We're gonna put little stickers on each one. So this one says like mesh pros 16 I believe it's a 16 mesh pros here and 62 a PCLR. So we're gonna label all these and they're gonna have a corresponding label inside the unified controller And each one little sticker on there reasonably big, but they're also 25 feet up there So it's gonna look hard to see that's why all this where we have a schematic for this place And we're gonna take that and mark as the contractors that we hand these to install and mount each one of these in the Ceiling and run the wire to them the mount and label each one So we know exactly where they are once all this is done and once we verify this whole system up and running We've already mashed it to based on their VLAN settings their firewall settings because we're not doing a firewall for this particular project They have their own internal one Then we pass it off to their controller. We've already done that with the other site once we had it up and running They verified did some testing great. It works. We we want a visibility that way as the contractors talk to us Hey, make sure all of these units are on make sure we can see each one of them Then we do the site migration and unify makes it really easy So we tie it to ours then we pass it over to theirs now The only real change we have to do is make sure their controller because ours has already been tuned You can look up for a unify how to do large deployment tuning and it's run for us not in the cloud key But in an actual VM because of the density and number of sites we have on there and the same thing with them They're going to have each one of their sites on there So you just have to make sure there's enough memory for the virtual machine and then inside the unify controller itself There's some tuning settings that you if I recommend to increase, you know a few timings and a few Some memory settings for the I believe it's a Java virtual machine that it runs in and some MongoDB settings really simple Unifies got this documented on there. Now the client really likes the unified system because of the lack of license fees, etc And but someone's going to point out well if you go with so so since that's company They'll next day air things with warranty and guarantees Well each one of these sites they have a couple spares and we do this all the time We will sell a site like this and then we have a couple spares that they'll keep sitting at the ready And they'll swap them out if any one of these goes bad now Have we seen unifies go bad very very rare switches? Yeah, we've seen a couple But based on the number of deployments and the number of the high density that we do with them It's actually pretty rare and even More rare is how frequently we've had problems with any of the access points indoor or outdoor They have rarely ever given us trouble I've seen a couple of them when we've had to unadoptery adopt them But it one didn't require going up even on the ceiling It was something we were able to do completely remotely and it's really really random I think a firmware update once didn't work on one of the units if you design and sell these up properly and have Properly spec'd all the wiring and things like that. They are a very solid system But as many people point out you don't get Top-level support from unify and things like that. Well, that's how the price comes lower But where our fair experience I've actually never called support for as many as we've deployed And we've done even larger deployments than this. This is actually it is a good size one But we've done ones that are more than About triple this and we've not had a problem It just comes down to planning and understanding how everything works and taking time really understand the system And this where their internal IT team didn't you know, they've looked at the unify They like the platform they had us contract to do design deployment make sure everything works and then hand it off to them Because honestly babysitting Wi-Fi once it's all installed not too hard It's pretty easy to do and pretty easy to internally manage and that's what they want It was internally manage all this they also got a couple spare switches that they have their Warehouses all four of them are all within 30 miles so they keep a couple in their primary office IT room That way if anything goes bad on these are you know 24 and 40 port POEs at different sites in different locations No problem. They can just go grab another 24 port off the shelf and throw it up in a place If there were one to go bad if there were some major problem and they have it already tied to their controller And even once you tie it to a controller and a site It's easy enough to move it to the site if there were a problem and even copy vlan configs and things like that Unify makes that really easy to do just like doing the site transfer It's just a matter of grab that file move it over and it lives under controller So this is the follow-up to it and for those wondering about the fiber part I don't know if I was as clear on the first part of video But we like I said someone had and someone's gonna point out that all the little dust boots for missing They were all in there I said to put them all back in the previous person had popped them out when the warehouse became empty and unoccupied from I don't know if the company went out of business or what happened to them before our client Purchased the warehouse and moved in so we did reuse their fiber And we just had to do a little bit of reconnecting on there Not a big deal But I thought that was a weird sticking point because as I understood the people bidding against us on this particular project said Never reuse fiber and we're like the fibers up in the air It seems fine We did put the caveat on there and we did give them an estimate of if the fiber doesn't work It's gonna be this much if we have to do any work on the fiber It's gonna be this much if it just works when we plug it in those are not even charges You'll be charged and outside of having to stop out there and find out that somehow one of them was one plug off Was pretty minor so we my staff my contractors plugged it into the switch and One lit up and one didn't because they have redundant links across and now it just turns out there was a mislabel on One of them was really minor it took longer to get the lift up than to really find the problem because it's quite a bit Of a lift to get up that high So this is it this is gonna get labeled boxed up and move to the next project and for those asking Can't you do more video on site? This warehouse is live and running which means there's a lot of customer equipment And they're not just the customer we're installing this for but the company does warehousing for other companies and on those boxes Is the names of all those companies and they may or may not want some video and some guy on YouTube doing it So this is one of those challenges you run to sometimes it's for illegal reasons because of compliance when we do work with Compliance level industries and we can't have video going in there me pick up a phone call You may pick up something or when it's the case of this where the warehousing people then would have to probably get permission for their Other vendors that use them and now that these creates a real awkward situation So it's not like we'll get any onsite video in the next project as well We did in the other one because the warehouse was just purchased and empty and vacant which now it's not vacant and full and So that's kind of for those that always ask that question. Why can't we do more onsite? It's it's a little tricky doing it It's hard to be in some of those Areas and showing things because the customer privacy is important And we don't want to have to have to deal with any legal ramifications or even cause any legal complications for any of our clients Obviously, that's not good for business in anyone. So I'll leave you with that I'll leave links to this if you want to know where to get these we have stuff there down below affiliate links If you want to help with the channel, I didn't say at the beginning of the other video But you know, it's always appreciate if you do and we'll go from there. Alright, if you have questions comments I'll link this over on the forum That way there's a place to discuss it. I try to reply to the YouTube comments, but once replies get nested They get lost. That's why I tell people the forums is a better way to engage with me on things. 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