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WHY YOU SHOULD DO ECSE DESIGN



For those who never heard of the ECSE course, it stands for Ekahau Certified
Survey Engineer. The course intends to ensure you understand the fundamentals on
WiFi THEN show you how to use Ekahau site survey software to design and validate
WiFi networks. The ECSE course evolved with additional courses, with the ECSE
Design course renamed from the original “ECSE”. The additional courses now
available are ECSE Troubleshooting and ECSE Advanced. For more info head over
to https://www.ekahau.com/training/

A few years back I wanted to do the ECSE Design course (back then it was called
ECSE) however, it was not available in South Africa until 2018 when Keith
Parsons came down and did a course in Johannesburg, but with my luck, it was the
same year I moved to Australia! 

Luckily my management team here in Australia gave me the go-ahead to attend the
course hence the reason for this post.

What I enjoyed about this course was the pace. Countless times I find myself at
a technical training session where you just rush through the materials knowing
if you don’t, you may not finish it.
With the ECSE Design course, there is that vibe where yes your instructor got a
job to get you through the course materials but is also open for discussions and
experiences you can share regarding design.
When it comes to design I think it’s soooo important to not be in a rushed
mindset which I felt the ECSE course exactly tried to avoid.

So Why Should You Do ECSE Design? Well if you haven’t done any of the ECSE
courses this is a great place to start. It’s also a great segway into CWNA
should you be relatively fresh in the WiFi world.

But I’ve been doing surveys for YEARS with Ekahau, will I get any benefit out of
this course? Oh yes, the segments the training course cover will be very
familiar to you however there are a lot of finer pointers you will pick up. The
other great thing about the course is that you can simply ask your instructor
about a scenario you had issues with while using Ekahau. The Ekahau instructors
have their own consulting businesses so they don’t only do training, they DO
WiFi projects all over the globe and you can get some great insight of things
they have learned.

Being experienced in the wireless field, you should go into this course as to
“What I still don’t know” and re-evaluate if your approach on designing WiFi can
be improved. I found this as a great opportunity to “recentre myself” 

What would the main benefit be from completing this course? If you are new to
WiFi you would have learned a ton on understanding the fundamentals about WiFi
and to put that in use designing WiFi networks. It will also give you clarity on
what you want to study next.

For the experienced engineer, you will walk away knowing what you are doing
right and what you can improve on. You may even consider doing the Ekahau
Advanced course next (I know I will).

How updated is the course? Well let’s just put it this way, Ekahau version 10.1
was released just a few weeks before when I started the course and we covered
all the new features including the new “Auto Pilot” feature introduced in
version 10.1, another thing that is great about this course is that you will be
brought up to speed anything new on Ekahau Pro.

Ok, so I’m super keen to do this course but how do I justify the cost to my
Boss? The problem in the WiFi world is that management doesn’t always understand
why they need to send you on a course that in their view is not mainstream since
they don’t understand WiFi (they think they do). What I’ve found if you do
explain to them this is not like a normal vendor cert boot camp you can tell
them that the very first day the course is focused on fundamentals for WiFi and
only from day two you will start to look at the Ekahau software. It also make
sense to ensure you get the most out of a product that you probably use on a
weekly if not daily basis.

Special thank you to Darko Raic and the rest of the Dicker Data team who hosted
us in Sydney, they went out of their way to ensure we had REAL coffee and took
us out to great places for lunch, very well organised.

Author jurgenslombard9623Posted on 16th Dec 20192nd Jan 2020Tags ECSE, ECSE
Design, Ekahau, Ekahau Training, Wireless Design


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