Patent ID: 8175608

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a layout of a physical area in which to establish a wireless local area network comprising one or more wireless network protocols; receiving user-specified parameters associated with the wireless local area network, the user-specified parameters defining a region within the physical area corresponding to at least one of the wireless network protocols and comprising at least one network requirement corresponding to the respective wireless network protocol; digitizing the region into a grid having coordinates; automatically determining coordinates on the grid corresponding to respective physical locations in the region where one or more backhaul nodes can be located to comply with the user-specified parameters and to connect said wireless local area network to an external wired network; upon automatically determining coordinates on the grid corresponding to a physical location in the region where the one or more backhaul nodes can be placed in accordance with the user-specified parameters, automatically determining coordinates on the grid corresponding to respective physical locations in the region where wireless access points can be placed to comply with the user-specified parameters and to ensure sufficient throughput in said wireless access points.