134 CHAPTER 4: PLANNING THE 3COM MOBILITY SYSTEM
Creating a Wiring
Closet
A wiring closet is a room that contains networking devices, such as
switches. If you have an existing wiring closet, you can draw it on the
floor layout.
If you have previously installed WX switches and defined them in 3WXM,
you can place them in the wiring closet and specify them as switches to
be used when 3WXM calculates how many MAP access points are
required. If you do not have any WX switches placed in the wiring closet,
3WXM automatically creates and configures the switches that are
needed.
Each floor plan must have at least one wiring closet, if the floor will use
MAPs that are directly connected to their WX switches. However, a floor
is not required to have a wiring closet if MAPs will be indirectly attached
through the network. In this case, if you do not create a wiring closet,
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