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Figure 1: VPN Access to the Corporate Network
Wired Client Support
The AP110 and AP1014i support wired clients using wired interfaces. This feature provides
connectivity, management, and monitoring for wired interfaces on Meru APs and wired clients
that are connected to those wired interfaces. The wired stations go through the same
assignment process from the controller as wireless clients do. The traffic from wired stations of
an AP can be tunneled to a controller or can be bridged in a local AP network. This feature
allows you to connect wired devices in any location in which adding more cable drops is
difficult. The mesh backhaul on APs provides the additional capability of expanding networks
with no cables. Additional information is provided in
Wired Port
Profiles.
Mesh
The mesh capability of the AP110 and AP1014i allows the extension of WLAN coverage in
enterprises in which laying physical cables is costly or impractical. The mesh APs are able to
communicate with the rest of the network by using wireless backhaul links rather than wired
Ethernet.
The mesh feature is available in System Director Release 5.3 or later.
The AP110 and AP1014i are single-radio, 2.4 GHz-only devices and can only be leaf nodes in
a mesh cloud, which means that the AP uses a wireless backhaul to connect to the controller
but does not support wireless backhaul for any other nodes and client share the backhaul
bandwidth. The AP can join a mesh cloud without special configuration (out of box), as it
automatically finds the controller wirelessly when the controller Ethernet discovery fails.
More information about mesh is provided in
Design
Examples.
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