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Cisco Mesh Access Points, Design and Deployment Guide, Release 7.0
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Mesh Network Components
Mesh Network Components
The Cisco wireless mesh network has four core components:
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Cisco Aironet 1520, 1240, and 1130 Series mesh access points
Note
Cisco Aironet 1505 and 1510 mesh access points are not supported in this release.
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Cisco wireless LAN controller (hereafter referred to as controller)
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Cisco WCS
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Mesh software architecture
Mesh Access Points
This section describes the following:
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Licensing for Mesh Access Points on a 5500 Series Controller
To use both mesh and nonmesh access points with a Cisco 5500 Series Controller, only the base license
(LIC-CT5508-X) is required from the 7.0 release and later releases. For more information about
obtaining and installing licenses, see Chapter 4 of the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration
Guide, Release 7.0 at
(LIC-CT5508-X) is required from the 7.0 release and later releases. For more information about
obtaining and installing licenses, see Chapter 4 of the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration
Guide, Release 7.0 at
Access Point Roles
Access points within a mesh network operate in one of the following two ways:
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Root access point (RAP)
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Mesh access point (MAP)
Note
All access points are configured and shipped as mesh access points. To use an access point as a root
access point, you must reconfigure the mesh access point to a root access point. In all mesh networks,
ensure that there is at least one root access point.
access point, you must reconfigure the mesh access point to a root access point. In all mesh networks,
ensure that there is at least one root access point.
While the RAPs have wired connections to their controller, the MAPs have wireless connections to their
controller.
controller.