Design Guide

Cisco Aironet 1520, 1130, 1240 Series Wireless Mesh Access Points, Design and Deployment Guide, Release 6.0

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Connecting the Cisco 1520 Series Mesh Access Point to Your Network

Using the GUI to Configure Antenna Gain

To configure antenna parameters using the controller GUI, follow these steps.

Step 1 Click Wireless > Access Points > Radio > 802.11a/n to open the 802.11a/n Radios window.

Step 2 For the mesh access point antenna you want to configure, hover over the blue arrow (far right) to display

antenna options. Choose Configure. (See Figure 60.)

Note Only external antennas have configurable gain settings.

Figure 60 802.11a/n Radios Window

Step 3

In the Antenna Parameters section, enter the antenna gain.

Gain is entered in 0.5 dBm units. For example, 2.5 dBm = 5. (See Figure 61.)

Note The entered gain value must match that value specified by the vendor for that antenna.

Figure 61 802.11 a/n Cisco APs > Configure Window