Specifications

Adaptive AP

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Remote Site Survivability (RSS)

RSS can be used to turn off RF activity on an AAP if it loses adoption (connection) to the controller.

NOTE

For a dependant AAP, independent WLANs continue to beacon for three days in the absence of a

controller.

Adaptive Mesh Support

An AAP can extend an Altitude 35xx Access Point's existing mesh functionality to a controller managed

network. All mesh APs are configured and managed through the wireless controller. APs without a

wired connection form a mesh backhaul to a repeater or a wired mesh node and then get adopted to the

controller. Mesh nodes with existing wired access get adopted to the controller like a wired AAP.

Mesh AAPs apply configuration changes 300 seconds after the last received controller configuration

message. When the configuration is applied on the Mesh AAP, the radios shutdown and re-initialize

(this process takes less than 2 seconds), forcing associated MUs to be deauthenticated and the Mesh link

will go down. MUs are able to quickly associate, but the Mesh link will need to be re-established before

MUs can pass traffic. This typically takes about 90 to 180 seconds depending on the size of the mesh

topology.

NOTE

When mesh is used with AAPs, the “ap-timeout” value needs to be set to a higher value (for example, 180

seconds) so Mesh AAPs remain adopted to the controller during the period when the configuration is applied and