Cisco Cisco Aironet 1522 Lightweight Outdoor Mesh Access Point Guía De Diseño

External RADIUS Authentication—Mesh access points can be externally authorized using a 
RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS (4.1 and later) that supports the client authentication type of 
Extensible Authentication Protocol-FAST (EAP-FAST) with certificates. See the 

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Membership to the wireless LAN mesh network for mesh access points is controlled by the bridge group 
names (BGNs). Mesh access points can be placed in similar bridge groups to manage membership or 
provide network segmentation. See the

You have a choice of ordering indoor access points (1130 or 1240) directly into the bridge mode, so that 
these access points can be used directly as mesh access points. If you have these access points in a local 
mode (nonmesh), then you have to connect these access points to the controller and change the AP mode 
to the bridge mode (mesh). For more information, see the 

. This scenario can become cumbersome particularly if the volume of the 

access points being deployed is large and if the access points are already deployed in the local mode for 
a traditional nonmesh wireless coverage.

The Cisco 1130 and 1240 are equipped with the following two simultaneously operating radios:

2.4-GHz radio used for client access

5-GHz radio used for data backhaul

The 5-GHz radio supports the 5.15 GHz, 5.25 GHz, 5.47, and 5.8 GHz bands.

Cisco Aironet 1520 series outdoor mesh access points consist of the 1522 dual-radio mesh access point 
and the 1524 multi-radio mesh access points. There are two models of the 1524, and one of the 1523, 
which are the following:

The public safety model, 1524PS

The serial backhaul model, 1524SB

The serial backhaul model, 1523CV

In the 6.0 release, the AP1524SB access point was launched in A, C and N domain. In the 7.0 release, 
the AP1524SB access point is launched also in -E, -M, -K, -S, and -T domains.

Cisco 1520 Series mesh access points (hereafter referred to in general as AP1520s or specifically as 
AP1522, AP1524PS (public safety), or AP1524SB and AP1523CV (serial backhaul access points)) are 
the core components of the wireless mesh deployment. In the 6.0 release, AP1524SB was launched in 
A, C, and N domains. In the 7.0 release, AP1524SB is also available in the -E, -M, -K, -S, and -T 
domains. AP1520s are configured by both the controller (GUI and CLI) and Cisco WCS. In the 7.0 
release, AP1523CV is available only in the -A domain. In this document, all the functionality described 
for AP1524SB is also applicable to AP1523CV. Communication between outdoor mesh access points 
(MAPs and RAPs) is over the 802.11a radio backhaul. Client traffic is generally transmitted over the 
802.11b/g radio (802.11a can also be configured to accept client traffic), and public safety traffic 
(AP1524PS only) is transmitted over the 4.9-GHz radio.