Here’s a breakdown of which standards use Which frequency bands: Standards Operating on 2.4 GHz Only Standards Operating on 5 GHz Only Standards Operating on Both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz(Dual-band) Standards Operating on 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz (Tri-Band)
Category: Wireless
Performing a factory reset on WiFi 6 APs will set the baud rate to 115200 bps.
I recently reimaged a 9115 AP to 17.12.3, and suddenly the characters on the console became unreadable after the reboot. While other APs on 17.9X were working when connecting to the console, it was later found that Cisco has released a BUG ID CSCwe88390 for this behavior. Starting from 17.12, if customers perform a factory…
Cisco Catalyst 9162, 9164, or 9166 Series Access Points from DNA management mode to Meraki mode.
In this blog post, I will share how to convert Cisco Catalyst 9162, 9164, or 9166 Series Access Points from DNA management mode to Meraki mode. This is useful if you want to add these access points to your Meraki cloud management dashboard. One of our customers faced an issue with their 9166 access point…
BSS coloring & OBSS PD on C9800
The new 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) standard addresses both Co-channel interference (CCI) and Overlapping Basic Service Set (OBSS) BSS Coloring is a method used to differentiate between the BSS of access points and their clients on the same RF channel. Wi-Fi 6 enables each AP radio to assign a value (from 1 to 63), known as…
C9800 ISSU Upgrade
ISSU is an upgrade from one image to another while the traffic flow. ISSU was released on version 17.1.X as beta and in production from version 17.3. Issu Eliminates network Downtime during the controller upgrade. Automate the process of upgrade without manual interventions. Prerequisites of ISSU upgrade ISSU Process Rolling AP upgrade its a new…
EWC Setup Flow
Use below cheatsheet for deploying EWC
Upgrading Embedded WLC
In a Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller network, there are four ways in which the software image can be downloaded from the embedded wireless controller. These methods are based on the location from where the controller transfers the software image to the subordinate AP: From an external TFTP server From an external SFTP server From the…
Embedded WLC
I was working on Cisco’s 9115AXi-E Embedded WLC this morning. Its an amazing product. In less than 5 mins i was able to setup my Wireless network. We can configure WLC using Option 1:- CLI Option 2:- WebGui Option 3:- Mobile APP. I did my deployment using Mobile APP and i share the details of…