Best Practices For An Ap300/Ap200 Network - Meru Networks AP300 Installation Manual

Best Practices for an AP300/AP200 Network

Best Practices for an AP300/AP200 Network
Read this section if you have both AP200 and AP300 active simultaneously on the same network with ABG
legacy clients. The following best practices should be followed to get optimal performance from such a mixed
network.
Do not deploy AP200 and AP300 at the same physical location; we recommend no overlapping
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coverage between AP200 and AP300.
If AP200 and AP300 must have overlapping coverage, make sure the ESS profiles on both AP types
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are unique. The chart below shows two scenarios, one supported, one not supported.
AP300i and AP300 are interchangeable and fully compatible to share a virtual cell. It's like having
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two AP300s with different antennas. The only difference is that AP300i is detected as a such in the
UI of the controller.
Supported Scenario
Two Unique ESS profiles
AP200 and AP300 SSID string
over the air
Unsupported Scenario
Same ESS profiles
AP200 and AP300 SSID string
over the air
Assumptions for the above best practices include:
AP200 is using Virtual Port and BSSID Virtual Cell (AP200 could also be using Shared BSSID Virtual
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Cell.)
AP300 is using Virtual Port BSSID Virtual Cell.
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AP200s and AP300s are on the sa me channel. (AP200 and AP300 could also be on different channels.)
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AP200s and AP300s are on the same controller. (AP200 and AP300 could also be on different
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controllers as long as each controller has a unique controller index.)
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AP200 Configuration
ESS Profile name in
controller is UniqueName1
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AP200 Configuration
ESS Profile name in
controller is same name
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AP300 Configuration
ESS Profile name in
controller is UniqueName2
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AP300 Configuration
ESS Profile name in
controller is same name
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