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Cisco Aironet 1500 Series Lightweight Outdoor
Mesh
Access Points
Product Overview
Cisco
®
Aironet
®
1500 Series Lightweight Outdoor Mesh Access Points (Figure 1) enable cost-
effective, scalable, deployment of secure, metropolitan-scale wireless LANs. The Cisco Aironet
1500 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 1500 Series
The Cisco Aironet 1500 Series supports options for dual-band, simultaneous support for IEEE
802.11a and 802.11b/g standards with the 1510 model or single-band support for IEEE 802.11b/g
with the 1505 model. Both models employ Cisco’s patent-pending
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 1510 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.
The Cisco Aironet 1505 lightweight outdoor mesh access point’s single-radio configuration uses
the 802.11b/g radio for data and access-point-to-access-point communications. The single-radio
configuration is ideal for customers that have moderate capacity needs that can be met with a
singe-band mesh solution. The single-radio configuration combines the deployment flexibility of a
mesh network with the ease of management and mobility services delivered by the Cisco Unified
Wireless Network.
Figure 2. Cisco Wireless Mesh Network Solution
