Mesh Neighbors, Parents, And Children - Cisco aironet 1522 Design And Deployment Manual

Figure 18

Mesh Neighbors, Parents, and Children

Relationships among mesh access points are either as a parent, child or neighbor (see
•
•
•
Figure 19
Rooftop:d6:80
Cisco Aironet 1520, 1130, 1240 Series Wireless Mesh Access Points, Design and Deployment Guide, Release 6.0
OL-20213-01
Logical Bridge and WLAN Mapping
Bridged Ethernet
A parent access point offers the best route back to the RAP based on its ease values. A parent can
be either the RAP itself or another MAP.
Ease is calculated using the SNR and link hop value of each neighbor. Given multiple choices,
–
generally an access point with a higher ease value is selected.
A child access point selects the parent access point as its best route back to the RAP.
A neighbor access point is within RF range of another access point but is not selected as its parent
or a child because its ease values are lower than that of the parent.
Parent, Child and Neighbor Access Points
Parent
RAP
LAN
Building 1
WLANs
CAPWAP Tunnel
Bridged Ethernet
VLAN mapped to WLAN
Child
Mesh:7a:70
MAP
MAP
Architecture Overview
Figure 19).
Neighbor
Mesh:78:90
MAP
MAP
33