Ask Me Anything Event Welcome to the Cisco Community Ask Me Anything conversation. Submit your questions from Monday, August 4, 2025 through Friday, August 15, 2025. Our colleagues Saikat Nandy and Parithosh Vema will be waiting to assist you ...
Forum Posts
Hi, I was reviewing the "Cisco Wireless Controller Configuration Guide, Release 8.0". Under the Management of the WLC section , and more specifically the High Availability section , I found this below information in bold. A redundancy VLAN shoul...
Hi, I would like to know how to use the 1562E access point to determine the cleanest channel to use. The AP1562E does not support the "Spectrum Expert" mode, so which mode should I use to verify the air quality? These AP1562E support the clean-air fu...
Hi, Has anyone had any experience of deploying directional antennas instead of omni's in open plan office environments with 10ft ceilings. The particular environment has multiple floors across 4 building with Atrium's between the building where s...
Hi experts, we have configured the 5500 WLC (Ver 8.3) for Netflow and Flex connect AVC and exporting all this info to Cisco Prime 3.1. Where should I be seeing these stats in Prime? when I go under Prime to Dashboard> Service-assurance, it says that ...
Hello, I'm designing an outdoor solution for an O&G company and I need to provide 2 things. The first one is a point-to-point link between 5Km to 10Km, and the second one is a WiFi Mesh solution behind the P2P link provided previously. I read that AP...
Hello Release-note says "WLC7510 cannot be configured as a guest Anchor". I wonder if a WLC7510 can be configured as a simple "Mobility Anchor" , i.e. an Anchor for Wlan with Layer2 authentication (No Layer3 guest authentication). Could you pl...
Hello, we had Cisco 1240 Accesspoints with wep encryption algorithm. There are 3 Win7 devices and Cat S60 smartphones with Android 6.0.1. The smartphones connected over the Wlan to a Webserver. Now we replaced the 1240 AP with 1852 AP. One of them is...
I have a controller with code 8.3.133. Currently have 388 AP associations, if i reboot the controller about 60-70 will associate with another controller is knows about from previous association. I theory how long after the controller comes back onlin...
Dear All, Hope you all are doing well. Please help me in the bolw. We have Cisco WLC 5508 configured in HA mode, existing S/W Ver is 8.2.130.0with field recovery image 7.6.95.16, total no of APs are 244.This is local switching setup (Flex Connect). W...
Hi All, Recently I upgraded my WLC 8510 , after upgrading some of the AP has new image as Primary image and old image as backup image. But some AP are having backup image as 0.0.0.0 Is it normal?
Resolved! 3504 WLC - Hot spot feature
Hi, Just a quick question: Could we make Hot-spot via Cisco 3504 WLC ? i.e. like in hotels/airports when we try to access Wi-Fi one small web page pop-up and ask basic details and allow limited quota of internet 1-2Mb. Thanks
My first AP installation was about 6-10 years ago. At that time the instructions with the Cisco AP was not to handle the AP unit if it was powered up. To remedy this we install everything first and plug the AP unit into the powered switch very last s...
Following issue arises when try to access telnet and ssh session both. What might be the issue.
Resolved! FLEXCONNECT And Internet Access
Hello, at a remote office we have couple of AP's serving some clients. The APs are in Flexconnect mode connecting to the WLC over the MPLS and internet traffic is also being backhauled through the MPLS. Is there a way we can have the AP's connect to ...
Resolved! Wireless Fast Transition Option
I'm trying to understand what the Fast Transition option does. It's on the 5508 GUI under WLAN -> SSID -> Security -> Layer 2.From what I just read,http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn7_2_110_0.htmlhttp://wireless-ri...
