Technical data

Intermediate APs

Intermediate APs (AP150 or OAP180) connect upstream to the gateway AP and down-

stream to other intermediate APs or leaf APs via a wireless backhaul link. Interme-

diate AP have no wired connection to the network and are configured for wireless

mode.

Leaf APs

Leaf APs (AP150 or OAP180), at the edge of the Enterprise Mesh network connect

upstream to a gateway or intermediate AP and provide service to 802.11 clients. Leaf

APs are configured for wireless mode.

Equipment Requirements

When designing an Enterprise Mesh configuration, use either a MC3000, MC41000, or

MC5000 controller and APs based on their capabilities, as shown in Table 20.

Table 20: AP Capabilities in an Enterprise Mesh

The following additional design guidelines apply:

 Enterprise Mesh APs support only L2 connectivity to the controller.

 QoS is not supported on the wireless backhaul.

 Bridged mode is not supported for Enterprise Mesh—only tunneled mode is

supported.

 Dynamic discovery is not supported.

 From the gateway, a maximum of 3 hops is supported between the gateway and

leaf APs with no more than 7 APs per cloud, (for example,1 gateway with 2

wireless APs, and 4 leaf APs is supported).

 Minimum channel separation guidelines are to use non-overlapping channels.

 The design must have uncompromising LoS between any two backhaul hops.

AP Model Gateway Intermediate AP Leaf AP

AP300/AP400 Not supported Not supported Not supported

AP150

RS4000

OAP180

AP1000

Not supported Not supported Not supported