Wireless Capacity; Ap And Mu Load Balancing - Motorola RFS7000 Series System Reference Manual

Detector APs
Configure an AP in either – Data mode (the regular mode) or Detector mode.
In Detector mode, the AP scans all channels at a configurable rate and forwards received beacons the switch.
The switch uses the received information to establish a receive signal strength baseline over a period of time
and initiates self-healing procedures (if necessary).
Neighbor Configuration
Neighbor detect is a mechanism allowing an AP to detect its neighbors and their signal strength. This enables
you to verify your installation and configure it for self-healing when an AP fails.
Self Healing Actions
This mechanism allows you to assign a self healing action to an AP's neighbors, on a per-AP basis. If AP1
detects AP2 and AP3 as its neighbors, you can assign failure actions to AP2 and AP3 if AP1 were to fail.
Assign up to four self healing actions:
• No action
• Decrease supported rates
• Increase Tx power
• Both 2 and 3.
Specify the Detector AP (AP2 or AP3) to stop detecting and adopt the RF settings of a failed AP.
For information on configuring self healing, see

1.2.2.8 Wireless Capacity

Wireless capacity specifies the maximum number of MUs, access ports and wireless networks usable by a
given switch. Wireless capacity is largely independent of performance. Aggregate switch performance is
divided among the switch clients (MUs and access ports) to define the performance experienced by a given
user. Each switch platform is targeted at specific market segments, so the capacity of each platform is chosen
appropriately. Wireless switch capacity is measured by:
• Maximum number of WLANs per switch
• Maximum number of access ports per switch
• Maximum number of MUs per switch
• Maximum number of MUs per access port.
Up to 256 access ports are supported by the switch. The actual number of access ports adoptable by a switch
is defined on a per platform basis and will typically be lower than 256.

1.2.2.9 AP and MU Load Balancing

Fine tune a network to evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. The following
topics define load balancing:
• MU Balancing Across Multiple APs
• AP Balancing Across Multiple Switches
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