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Airespace Mobility Group
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Airespace Product Guide
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About Airespace Mobility Groups
Airespace Mobility Group
Airespace System operators can define Mobility Groups to allow client roaming across groups of
Airespace Wireless Switches and WLAN Appliances. Because the Airespace Switches and Appliances in
Multiple-Airespace Switch and Appliance Deployments
can detect each other across the switched
network and over the air, it is important that each enterprise, institution, and wireless internet service
provider isolate their Airespace Switches and Appliances. The AireOS makes it easy for operators to
create this isolation by allowing them to assign a Mobility Group Name to their Airespace Switches and
Appliances. This assignment can be made using the
Airespace Web Browser Interface
, or the
Airespace Command Line Interface
The following figure shows the results of creating Mobility Group Names for two groups of Airespace
Switches and Appliances. The Airespace Switches and Appliances in the ABC Mobility Group recognize
and communicate with each other through their
and through their shared
subnets, but the ABC Mobility Group tags the XYZ Airespace APs as
. Likewise, the
Airespace Switches and Appliances in the XYZ Mobility Group do not recognize or communicate with the
Airespace Switches and Appliances in the ABC Mobility Group. This feature ensures Mobility Group
isolation across the switched network.
Figure -
Typical Airespace Mobility Group Name Application
The Airespace Mobility Group feature can also be used to limit roaming between different floors, build-
ings, or campuses in the same enterprise by assigning different Mobility Group names to different
Airespace Switches and Appliances within the same wireless network.
If enabled,
operation is constrained within each Airespace Mobility Group.
