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Cisco Aironet 1520 Series Lightweight Outdoor
Mesh Access Point
Product Overview
Cisco
®
Aironet
®
1520 Series Lightweight Outdoor Mesh Access Point (Figure 1) enables cost-
effective and scalable deployment of a secure outdoor wireless LANs. The Cisco Aironet 1520
Series is designed for municipal Wi-Fi deployments for public access, public safety, or managed
services, and for enterprise campus outdoor Wi-Fi extensions.
Figure 1. Cisco Aironet 1520 Series
The Cisco Aironet 1520 Series supports dual-band radios compliant with IEEE 802.11a and
802.11b/g standards. Various uplink connectivity options are supported such as Gigabit Ethernet
(1000BaseT), and small form-factor pluggable (SFP) slot for fiber (100BaseBX) or cable modem
interface. Power options supported includes 480VAC, 12VDC, cable power, Power over Ethernet
(POE), and internal battery backup power. It also employs
Cisco’s Adaptive Wireless Path Protocol
(AWPP)
to form a dynamic wireless mesh network between remote access points, while delivering
secure, high-capacity wireless access to any Wi-Fi-compliant client device (Figure 2).
The Cisco Aironet 1520 Series lightweight outdoor mesh access point’s dual-radio configuration
dedicates the 802.11a radio to access-point-to-access-point communications, allowing the mesh
network to maximize all available channels, minimize the occurrence of interference from
unlicensed devices, and minimize latency. The dual-radio configuration delivers high system
capacity through pico-cellular designs and support for real-time applications such as voice and
video.
Key Features on the Cisco Aironet 1520 Series are:
Modular design to integrate a selection of radios
Dual-radio support (802.11a, 802.11b/g)
Improved 802.11b/g radio sensitivity and range performance on the three-channel Maximal
Ratio Combining (MRC)
Multiple uplink options (Gigabit Ethernet-1000BaseT, Fiber-100BaseBX, and cable modem
interface)
