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XCC: MESH network: Which APs are supported ?

Volker_Kull — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:31:07 GMT

I need to configure a wifi MESH network from one root AP to two slave APs (with outdoor APs). Which APs are supported with XCC V5 ?

I only found “How to configure WiNG Meshpoint in Extreme Cloud Appliance” :
https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000080160
where only AP7xxx, AP8xxx and AP39xx are supported. What´s about AP360e/i or AP560e/i ??

Volker

Re: XCC: MESH network: Which APs are supported ?

Ovais_Qayyum — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:21:33 GMT

Hi Volker,

Mesh is currently not supported in XCC, but it will probably be available in the coming XCC release or later. So, stay tuned for that.

Since your use case is only one Root and two non-Root APs, how about using Client Bridge functionality? it will allow you to setup one AP as an infrastructure AP as you would normally do and configure two APs as Client Bridges. The Client Bridge AP will connect to the infra. AP using one of its radio interfaces and you can still use the second interface for client access if required. WiFi 6 APs such as the AP300, AP400, and AP500 i/e are supported.

There are a few caveats though.

The Client Bridge only supports a single VLAN.
No. of users behind a Client Bridge on the wired segment is limited to eight per port (as far I remember).

Re: XCC: MESH network: Which APs are supported ?

Volker_Kull — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:54:38 GMT

Update:

XCC 5.16.03.0015