iBwave Private Networks (Wi-Fi): Wi-Fi Network Planning and Design Software.
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Wi-Fi Network Planning and Design Software
THE MOST RELIABLE WAY TO DESIGN AND PLAN Wi‑Fi NETWORKS YOU CAN DEPEND ON.
With cloud-connectivity, seamless integration with iBwave Wi‑Fi Mobile, active and passive surveys, advanced 3D modeling, smart antenna contouring, a full database of all network parts and powerful prediction capabilities for coverage, throughput and capacity, iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi) is the most productive and collaborative way to plan, design and deliver high-performance Wi‑Fi networks.
Accelerate Wi-Fi Network Design Productivity
iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi) eliminates many of the design process inefficiencies that exist today so you can recognize revenues sooner, grow your project pipeline faster and your customer saves time and money.
- Simplify Wi‑Fi Design with our ‘Basic’ and ‘Advanced’ Modes. The ‘Basic’ mode offers the most common features for designing Wi‑Fi networks, so you can work faster and simpler. You still have the option to switch between the modes and choose the one that suits you the best.
- Active Surveys with an integrated server. Assess a network’s performance without using iPerf or another third-party tool. Simply launch the ‘Active Survey’ server from your desktop and then survey with either the mobile app or PC version.
- A Complete Bill of Materials. With the ability to design your entire network with APs, cabling and network equipment, you can quickly generate an accurate Bill of Materials for your customer.
- Auto-AP Placement and Auto-Channel Assignment. Use the optional AP placement in either the mobile app or PC version to quickly start your Wi‑Fi network design. Freely move, delete or add APs around the floor plan to get the design just right. Quickly assign each AP in your design to a channel with the auto-channel assignment functionality – then update channels if/where needed.
- Smart Antenna Contouring. View live signal strength predictions as you design so you do not have to run full prediction results multiple times.
- Automatic Cable Routing Alignment. Model cable trays and risers in iBwave Wi‑Fi Mobile or iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi) and then save hours of time with the automatic cable alignment functionality that automatically snaps them into place.
- Cloud-connectivity to easily share files. Easily share files with your team and with your customers by using the free 10GB of storage in the iBwave cloud to save and access files from anywhere, anytime.
- Multi-adapter Passive Survey. Use of several Wi‑Fi adapters to collect survey data. Each of them can be configured to scan a certain band, specific channels or groups of channels. Decrease time to collect data when tasks are distributed among the adapters.
Make Private Network Wi-Fi design and planning more collaborative than ever
iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi) provides you with a cloud-connected solution that makes it easy for teams and customers to share files and work together.
- Cloud connectivity. Save your projects to the cloud so you and your team can access your projects from anywhere, anytime.
- Seamless connectivity with iBwave Wi‑Fi Mobile. Work on your designs from either your tablet or PC knowing your files will always be accessible from both.
- Share projects with your customers with iBwave Viewer. Send your design to your customers for review via a secure link so they can open it up in iBwave Viewer and provide you with feedback.
Design detailed networks in advanced 3D with prediction
With the ability to model your venues in 3D and a large database of all Wi‑Fi network components, you can impress your customer with a 3D visual of what the network will look like in their venue, and how well it will perform.
- Components Database of accurately modeled vendor network components. Drop accurately-modeled access points and network equipment (antennas, cables, routers, controllers, switches, miscellaneous). Call us to add parts as you need them or add them yourself.
- Advanced 3D Modeling. Import floor plans in AutoCAD, PDF or any image file to model your buildings in a CAD-powered modeling engine. Automatically draw walls, floors, horizontal and inclined surfaces, as well as curved walls for stadiums and diagonal drawing for square sections at an angle. Assign materials from an extensive database of materials – or by adding your own material. View the model in the 3D viewer and watch it come to life.
You can also accelerate building modeling by utilizing our Stencil Library, a repository of user-defined templates and stencils for frequently used 3D objects, materials, markups, and images. - View prediction and design details in 3D. View prediction and the placement of your components from floor-to-floor throughout the venue. See how they connect and show your customer exactly what the network will look like once it is implemented.
- Adjust 3D view layers. In the 3D modeler, you can adjust all planes of your design (x,y,z) to view your building as a whole or floor by floor. You can also adjust visible layers to choose what you are looking at: cabling, APs, network equipment, prediction. Zoom in, walk through and pan your design and export an image to include in reports or send to your customer.
Increase Wi-Fi Network design quality with powerful prediction & capacity planning
With the iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi) advanced propagation and capacity analysis engine you drastically reduce the risk of network re-design costs post-installation by accurately simulating the performance of your network before it’s deployed.
- Calibrate Prediction Results with Survey Measurements. Calibrate prediction with your survey measurements to increase the accuracy of the network’s predicted performance. Calibrate all coefficients or just material coefficients, and then save the model to apply to similar environments in future projects.
- Smart Antenna Contouring. View live prediction of an access point’s signal strength live on the screen while you are doing the design.
- Fast Ray Tracing Prediction Engine. Run fast ray tracing prediction to assess how your network and assigned materials will perform once installed. Consider walls, horizontal surfaces and inclined surfaces – either imported and modeled in 3D or drawn manually with built-in modeling tools.
- VLPE Prediction Engine. Save the time you usually spend on modeling venues by using our patented propagation engine to use density zones instead of walls to capture and model the environment characteristics of a venue. Run this prediction both in the mobile app or PC version.
- Capacity Analysis Engine. Simulate the traffic usage on your network with the most advanced capacity analysis tool on the market. Define capacity by technology, users, applications and capacity hotspot zones.
- Output Maps. Assess a network’s coverage performance with the RSSI, CCI, Best AP, Best Channel, Overlap Zone and Maximum achievable data rate maps. Then assess the network’s capacity performance with the Capacity and Average downlink data rate maps to show the user’s network experience.
Quickly generate key project reports
Quickly generate key project reports to distribute to your internal and external stakeholders.
- Equipment List & Cost Details
- Access Points, Cable Routing & Cross-reference
- Annotations, Survey Data, Output Maps & Prediction vs. Measured Data, Throughput
- Electromagnetic Field (EMF)
- Compliance
iBwave Viewer. This free software lets your customers open design files (readonly), view the design and prediction in 3D and run their own project reports anytime they want.
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iBwave Private Networks is the best value for Wi‑Fi network design software on the market
iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi)
Wi‑Fi network design software for your PC.
- iBwave Private Networks (Wi‑Fi only solution)
- 10 GB of cloud storage
- iBwave Viewer (read-only version)
- AMS support included with subscription
Support services
We offer a full list of services such as building and environment modeling, creation and certification of components, and legacy project design conversion to the iBwave format.
Annual maintenance services
iBwave’s entire product suite is covered by an optional Annual Maintenance Service for full customer support, and access to updates and upgrades on all our products.
What's new
iBwave Private Networks (Wi-Fi)
Added Stencils for Outdoor Modelling and Material Properties Enhancements
In the latest release, we’ve added new sample stencils for outdoor modeling, including vehicles, vegetation, and poles. Stencils now also retain all material RF and cosmetic properties and textures, so you don’t need to have the same materials in your components database to use them.
GPU Accelerated Predictions
You can now reach up to 5X faster predictions compared to release 19.2, allowing you to rapidly optimize your design when building and predicting complex projects on a GPU! This will not only empower you to design wireless networks faster, but also make your network designs even more accurate by making optimizations less time-consuming.
When using GPU Acceleration, performance will depend highly on the selection of the GPU and CPU pairing in the system. While the GPU performs rapid mathematical computations, its performance is constrained by the capabilities of the CPU, SSD, and RAM. Following GPU acceleration, the remaining prediction steps remain reliant on the CPU.
With the optimal GPU and CPU pairing and PC setup, you can potentially save even tens of hours on each prediction run on very complex projects with multiple wireless services, such as stadiums, airports, or other large buildings. The time savings tend to scale with the project's size, complexity, and number of wireless services.
Wireless Service Template Enhancements
Streamline and expedite the design process for multi-carrier projects with our latest release's wireless service template enhancements! Now, you can save the Wireless Service Template along with project settings, eliminating the hassle of recreating lengthy service lists. Additionally, you can effortlessly modify templates by adding or removing services for future projects.
Ultra-High Fiber Support
To better support ultra-high fiber components, fiber components now support higher port and strand limits. Parts now support up to 576 optical ports and up to 6912 fiber strands.
Global Stencil Library Privileges
Unity Administrators can now set access privileges for the Global Stencil Library. Users can be set with either no access, read-only access, or read-write access through the Unity admin tools.
Technical requirements
iBwave Private Networks (Wi-Fi)
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
- Install the latest Windows service packs and critical updates from the Windows Update site
- Administrative rights are required during installation
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
Smooth and rapid operation of iBwave Private Networks is highly dependent on Boost Clock Speed of the processor, the number of cores, and the amount of RAM in the system. For highly complex designs involving a large surface area, high number of transmitters, and number of wireless services, the Recommended specifications listed in this document are meant to provide the best experience for users attempting to build accurate designs through rapid iterations of designing and predicting the system.
2. RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATIONS
The following table describes the minimum and recommended specifications of iBwave Private Networks. A Recommended system is one that can reliably execute complex designs over large venues with numerous transmitters and large square footage.
Recommended Specifications will offer the highest performance while offering similar results in terms of execution time for a single user.
| Desktop Minimum | Recommended | |||
| Laptop (Mobile CPUs) | Desktop | Cloud | ||
| Processor | Intel Core i5 AMD Ryzen 5 | Intel Core i7 AMD Ryzen 7 | Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 9 | Intel XEON Platinum AMD EPYC 9xx4 |
| CPU Clock Speed | 4+ GHz Boost Clock | 4+ GHz Boost Clock | 5+ GHz Boost Clock | 3.40 GHz |
| Core | 6+ Performance Cores | 6+ Performance Cores | 8+ Performance Cores | 128 Cores |
| Operating System | Win 10 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor | Win 10 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor | Win 11 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor | Windows Server 2022 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4/DDR5 | 16 GB DDR4/DDR5 | 128 GB DDR5 | 256 GB |
| Storage | 1TB NVME | 1TB NVME | 2TB NVME | 2TB+ |
| Performance (Stadium – Signal Strength) | 2h 30m | 3h 24m | 1h 13m | 1h 01m |
2.1 GPU-ACCELERATED SPECIFICATIONS
When coupled with GPU acceleration using supported CUDA® operations on Nvidia® devices, there is a marked reduction in prediction times on these systems. The base computation for every prediction map is the creation of Signal Strength matrices describing the power at each point of a prediction map. Utilizing the GPU for these computations can result in further performance gains relative to the system used.
Note: CUDA GPU Acceleration is available starting in Release 22 of iBwave Private Networks for all packages of iBwave Private Networks.
| Laptop | Desktop | Cloud | |
| System | As Recommended | As Recommended | As Recommended |
| NVIDIA Video Card | RTX 4070 (Mobile) | RTX 4090 | A100 |
| GPU-Accelerated Prediction Time | 1h 43m | 28m | 29m |
CERTIFIED NVIDIA® DEVICES:
Devices that comply with a minimum of CUDA® Compute Level of 6.1 will be capable of running GPU-accelerated predictions (see the following table - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus). Of these devices only the following devices have been internally tested for use with CUDA® Accelerated predictions:
- Nvidia 4xxx-Series of devices
- Nvidia A40 / A100 Cloud devices
Wi-Fi ADAPTERS
All Wi-Fi adapters are supportedAdvanced Support
The following adapters include support for channel filtering and custom scan rate:
- Netgear A6200
- D-Link DWA-182 Revision A1
- Asus USB-AC53
- Buffalo AC866 N300
- Belkin F9L1106az v1
- BT 11ac Dual Band 900
- AirPcap Nx: USB 802.11a/b/g/n
Wi-Fi ADAPTERS
All Wi-Fi adapters are supportedAdvanced Support
The following adapters include support for channel filtering and custom scan rate:
- Netgear A6200
- D-Link DWA-182 Revision A1
- Asus USB-AC53
- Buffalo AC866 N300
- Belkin F9L1106az v1
- BT 11ac Dual Band 900
- AirPcap Nx: USB 802.11a/b/g/n
* iBwave Private Networks (Wi-Fi) does not allow the usage of multiple simultaneous Terminal Server sessions.
* iBwave Private Networks (Wi-Fi) will not run under multiple simultaneous Terminal Servers.