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the user. The mesh points will authenticate to the mesh portal and establish a link that is secured using Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
NOTE: The mesh portal will reboot after 5 minutes when it loses Ethernet connectivity to a wired network.

Mesh Points

The mesh point (MP), is an IAP that establishes an all-wireless path to the mesh portal. The mesh point provides
traditional WLAN services (such as client connectivity, intrusion detection system (IDS) capabilities, user role
association, and Quality of Service (QoS) for LAN-to-mesh communication) to clients and performs mesh
backhaul/network connectivity.
NOTE: Any provisioned IAP that has an ethernet link is a mesh portal, and the IAP without an ethernet link is a mesh point.

Instant Mesh Setup

Instant mesh can be provisioned in two ways — Over-the-air provisioning and over-the-wire provisioning. Over-
the-air provisioning is available when only one Dell Instant mesh network is being advertised and it will not work
for ROW version of IAPs.
The ROW IAP must have a the country code set in order to transmit/receive. Hence over-the-air provisioning is
not supported on ROW IAPs at this time.
This section provides instructions on how to create a simple mesh network on Instant. To setup a mesh network,
perform the following steps:
1. Connect all the IAPs to a DHCP server so that the IAPs get their IP addresses in the same subnet.
2. For over-the-air provisioning— Connect one IAP to the switch to form the mesh portal. All the other IAPs are
provisioned over-the-air. Ensure that only one Virtual Controller (one subnet) is available over-the-air and all
the IAPs are connected to a DHCP server and get their IP addresses in the same subnet.
3. An open SSID, instant is listed. Connect a laptop to the default and open the instant SSID.
Figure 44
4. Type
68 | Mesh Network
Open Instant SSID
in the browser.
instant.dell-pcw.com
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