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

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This document provides design and deployment guidelines for the deployment of secure enterprise, 
campus, and metropolitan Wi-Fi networks within the Cisco wireless mesh networking solution, a 
component of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network (CUWN).

Mesh networking employs Cisco Aironet 1500 Series outdoor mesh access points and indoor mesh 
access points (Cisco Aironet 1040, 1130, 1140, 1240, 1250, 1260, 3500e, 3500i, 3600e, and 3600i series 
access points) along with the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller, and Cisco Wireless Control System 
(WCS) to provide scalable, central management, and mobility between indoor and outdoor deployments. 
Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol manages the connection of 
mesh access points to the network.

End-to-end security within the mesh network is supported by employing Advanced Encryption Standard 
(AES) encryption between the wireless mesh access points and Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) 
clients. This document also outlines radio frequency (RF) components to consider when designing an 
outdoor network.

The features described in this document are for the following products:

Cisco Aironet 1550 (1552) series outdoor 802.11n mesh access points

Cisco Aironet 1520 (1522, 1524) series outdoor mesh access points

Cisco Aironet 1040, 1130, 1140, 1240, 1250, 1260, 3500e, 3500i, 3600e, and 3600i series indoor 
mesh access points

Mesh features in Cisco wireless LAN controller releases 5.2 and later releases

Mesh features in Cisco WCS releases 5.2 and later releases