Autonomous IOS Support for 3500, 3600 and 1550 (Mesh) Series Access Points 15.2(2)JA

The long awaited code that will allow engineers everywhere to survey with 3500, 3600 and 1550 access points!

Site-Survey Only Mode for 3600, 3500, and 1550 Access Points

You can install Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)JA on Cisco Aironet 3600 and 3500 Series access points and

on 1550 series outdoor access points to perform site surveys. This release runs on these access points

with limited functionality. You can manually adjust these settings on the site-survey access points:

• Channel on each radio

• Transmit power on each radio

• Enable and disable the radios

• Manually set basic and supported transmit rates

• Enable advertised cell power in beacons to client to enable DTPC for doing active surveys

• Enable and disable SSID broadcast in beacons

• Enable open authentication

Enhanced Support for Workgroup Bridges

This release provides additional support for access points in workgroup bridge mode:

• PEAP support for WGB: An access point configured as a workgroup bridge can now associate to a

root access point using PEAP

• Roaming improvements (for client workgroup bridges):

– This release improves the reliability of fast roaming on workgroup bridges by allowing the unit

an additional retry when it needs to reassociate to the root access point.

– This release also improves the method that workgroup bridges use to select the “best parent”

access point. Workgroup bridges can share association histories with rot access points, which

can build and share a list of best root access points among workgroup bridges. This method

improves helps workgroup bridges select the best root access point when roaming.

• VideoStream support on workgroup bridges (when used as a client): VideoStream improves the

reliability of an IP multicast stream by converting the multicast frame, over the air, to a unicast

frame. VideoStream was not supported for workgroup bridge clients in previous releases because a

workgroup bridge’s wired clients cannot be added to the controller (WLC) multicast table. In this

release, the workgroup bridge is added to the WLC multicast table, and the workgroup bridge

converts the VideoStream unicast frame into an Ethernet multicast frame and sends it out to its wired

clients.

Enter this command on the controller to enable VideoStream for workgroup bridges:

config media-stream wired-client enable

RELEASE NOTES ATTACHED: http://www.my80211.com/storage/release-notes/15_2_2_JA2.pdf

Comments

[Ed Bacon - UtHealth]

Very cool! Time to order a few spares to go in my survey kit.