Wireless surveys built for real OC buildings.
Irvine Spectrum Class A towers with glass curtain walls. Anaheim resort district venues with extreme concurrent-device counts and outdoor-to-indoor roaming across massive footprints. Medical campuses in Fountain Valley, Orange, and Mission Viejo with telemetry-band restrictions and FDA-class device coexistence requirements. Newport Center and South Coast Metro office parks — dense 2.4 GHz, marginal 5 GHz, clean 6 GHz available if the design calls for it. Orange County’s RF environment is one of the most heterogeneous in the country. Healthcare is different from biotech clean rooms. Biotech is different from a multi-story financial services campus in Newport Beach. Every engagement is Ekahau-driven, measurement-backed, and delivered with documentation your operations team, compliance officer, and the next engineer can actually use.
What we deliver
Four survey types, one methodology. You tell us the stage, we tell you what the engagement looks like.
Why Ekahau-based surveys
Ekahau Pro is the enterprise standard for Wi-Fi design — it’s what Cisco, HPE Aruba, Juniper Mist, and every serious enterprise wireless engineer specifies with. We use it for four reasons.
Predictive design before anyone quotes hardware
Floor plans import, walls get attenuation values calibrated to the actual materials — glass curtain wall in Irvine Spectrum towers behaves nothing like the poured concrete in an Anaheim convention structure or the biotech clean-room partition in a Lake Forest lab. Ekahau models AP placement against a target: -65 dBm primary, -70 dBm secondary, 25 dB SNR, capacity for expected concurrent device count. You get a BOM before procurement, not after.
AP-on-a-stick validation — because OC buildings don’t match their drawings
Newport Center towers have reflective glazing that predictive models systematically underestimate. Medical campus IDFs haven’t been surveyed since the last major reno. Themed resort construction — the Anaheim resort district specifically — has structural envelope materials that bear no resemblance to their original architectural specs. We bring the actual AP model you’re deploying, mount it on a tripod at the proposed height, and measure. Attenuation values get corrected, AP counts adjust, and the design reflects the building — not a floor plan from 2009.
Sidekick 2 spectrum analysis — find what nobody knew was there
Ekahau Sidekick 2 combines a dual 2.4/5/6 GHz capture radio with a built-in spectrum analyzer. In Orange County healthcare facilities, we’re looking at telemetry bands, nurse-call frequencies, and any FDA-class wireless medical device that shares the 2.4 GHz spectrum. In dense Irvine office parks, 2.4 GHz is saturated — neighboring tenants’ consumer gear generates co-channel interference that kills SNR before you’ve deployed a single AP. Sidekick 2 shows you all of it. Surveys without it are guesswork dressed up as engineering.
Post-install heatmaps — proof, not promises
After install, we re-walk the site and produce the validation heatmap. Every floor. Measured RSSI, SNR, data rate, channel utilization, roaming behavior on a real device. If it doesn’t hit spec, it goes on the remediation list before we sign off. That document is what your IT director, compliance officer, or the next engineer inherits — and what most OC installers don’t provide.
Industries we serve in Orange County
OC enterprise density is real — healthcare systems, medtech manufacturers, financial services, tech HQs, hospitality, aerospace, and higher education all in the same county. Each vertical has its own RF constraints. We know them.
Selected engagements — anonymized
Enterprise networks we’ve delivered at scale. Client names omitted per our VAR and partner agreements.
Credentials
Multi-CCIE engineering bench serving Orange County. Most of our engineers carry multiple expert-level certifications — CCIE, CCNP, Palo Alto PCNSE, Meraki CMNO/CMNA, Aruba ACMP, and adjacent security and cloud credentials. Ekahau ECSE certified. Vendor-agnostic across Cisco, Meraki, HPE Aruba, Juniper Mist, Ruckus, Extreme, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, and Ubiquiti. We do independent validation work for manufacturers and ISPs — hired specifically because we have no platform to make look good. Leadership with 25 years in enterprise networking. WiFi Hotshots was founded in 2019 as a DBA of LA Wireless LLC. Minority-owned. Public-sector registered: California DGS Small Business, City of Los Angeles SBE / LBE / EBE, California SPIN-listed supplier, and Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) registered. White-label delivery for VAR partners.
Orange County service area
We cover the full Orange County enterprise corridor: Irvine, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Orange, Fullerton, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Tustin, Westminster, Cypress, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Yorba Linda, Placentia, Brea, Rancho Santa Margarita, Ladera Ranch, Dana Point, San Clemente, and San Juan Capistrano. Most engagements are scheduled within a week of scope confirmation — we’re not same-day walk-ins, but we’re not a six-week waiting list either. Our HQ is in Valencia, CA. Multi-site national rollouts operate out of the same delivery model.
Orange County wireless survey FAQ
The questions OC IT directors, procurement teams, and VAR delivery managers ask before signing the SOW.
Scope an Orange County wireless site survey.
Send floor plans and scope. We’ll return a fixed-fee SOW, typically within the week. 844-946-8746 · sales@wifihotshots.com

