Correct Elevation and Azimuth Wi-Fi antenna angles in Cisco DNA Center for ceiling-mounted AP

This question comes up and every now and then. So, let’s put it to bed.

If you have a ceiling-mounted internal antenna AP (with built-in antennas), or external antenna AP with dipole antennas (AIR-ANT2524D), or with short dipole antennas (AIR-ANT2535SD), here are the correct Azimuth and Elevation angle settings.

This is how 0° Azimuth and 0° Elevation look like. Plus “squished doughnut” as a bonus to illustrate the coverage pattern 🍩
  • Azimuth angle does not matter in this case (it does for directional antennas), because these antennas have the same pattern regardless of how you rotate them clockwise or counterclockwise. Simply use the default value of 0°.
  • Elevation angle is 0° for this orientation.
Cisco DNA Center Azimuth and Elevation configuration

Special thanks to Christian Gauer for his help.

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Jiri Brejcha

Jiri is passionate about mobility ranging from Wi-Fi to folding bikes;-) He is a Wi-Fi Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco UK, proud member of the Cisco Live Network Operations Center deployment team, and WLAN Pi development team. If he is not working, he is most likely riding his Brompton bike. All opinions are my own, not Cisco's.

One thought on “Correct Elevation and Azimuth Wi-Fi antenna angles in Cisco DNA Center for ceiling-mounted AP”

  1. Thanks is there a way to report in DNA-C the antenna used matches what was installed?
    For patch antenna is there a way to determine the length of low loss cable that was installed?

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