Changing The Operation Of The Access Point To Autonomous Mode; Differences Between Cleanair And Cleanair Express - Cisco Aironet 1700 Deployment Manual

Changing the Operation of the Access Point to Autonomous Mode

Both unified and autonomous images are installed in the AP 1700 similar to the AP 1530.
To change the operation of the access point from unified mode to autonomous (stand-alone) mode, perform the following steps:
Power the AP and connect a console cable.
Step 1
From the Command Line, enter the following command in privileged EXEC mode (#):
Step 2
AP # capwap ap autonomous
The system responds with "Convert to Autonomous image. Proceed?
Step 3 Type Yes to confirm.
The Unit re-boots and loads the Autonomous (aIOS) image.
Once the autonomous image is loaded, the unified image is erased.

Differences between CleanAir and CleanAir Express

CleanAir Express is available today and requires controller code 8.0 or higher. CleanAir Express is a fully functional version
of Cisco Systems CleanAir.
The main difference with CleanAir Express is the 1600/1700 series access point (AP), referred to as the (1K series), has less
dedicated memory for local CleanAir operations. So, the 1600/1700 series AP needs to off-load portions of the Spectrum
Intelligence (SI) functions on the 1K series to host memory.
The Cisco 2K and 3K series has more memory and processes the SI functions locally.
The AP 1600/1700 contains the Cisco custom silicon "CleanAir hardware chip" and therefore can recognize all the interferers
that the 2K and 3K series AP can recognize.
The core differences with CleanAir Express are the limitations of core memory and processing power of AP 1600. This makes
the AP 1600/1700 to only track three devices per radio interface. The 2K and 3K series can track ten devices per radio.
Also, when scanning in monitor mode, 2K and 3K series APs can scan processing spectrum in 40 MHz segments. Therefore,
these APs can spend less time, in the scan cycle, looking for interferers (11.4%). But, AP 1600/1700 (1K series) must process
the spectrum looking at a smaller 20 MHz segment at a time. Therefore, the scan cycle for 1K series APs is a bit longer (22.8%).
Thus, the longer scan cycle extends the detection time for other monitor functions such as (wIPS, rogues, and so on.)
Table 10 Feature List for CleanAir Express
Access Point
RF Interference Detection
RF Interference Classification
RF Interference Mitigation
RF Interference Location
Zone of Impact
Cisco Aironet Series 1700 Access Point
CleanAir Express
1600/1700
Available
Available
Available
Available
Not Available
Cisco Aironet Series 1700/2700/3700 Access Point Deployment Guide
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CleanAir with
CleanAir WSSI
2600/3600/2700/3700 3600/3700
Available Available
Available Available
Available Available
Available Available
Available Available