CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WIRELESS NETWORKS

A location analyzer resource (a.k.a., communication management resource) receives location information indicating expected locations of one or more installed physical assets in a network environment. The location analyzer resource also retrieves network infrastructure map information such as including images associated with the network environment. The network infrastructure map information and corresponding images indicate actual locations of available physical infrastructure in the network environment. Among other operations, the location analyzer resource analyzes images of the available physical infrastructure to determine a respective actual location of each installed physical asset of interest. The learned locations of the one or more installed physical assets are then used by a configuration management resource to produce a network installation plan in which to install one or more wireless access points to provide wireless access to wireless stations in respective geographical regions serviced by the new wireless access points.