Is there any difference between two different part number Cisco Aironet Routers with respect to features?

[GunjanBhavsar39984]

Hi,

We are looking to buy a Cisco Aironet router in India and we found that part number for that is 

AIR-AP2802I-D-K9I.

While our Singapore team has already a same router with part number:

AIR-AP2802I-S-K9.

Is there any difference in terms of technical things between this two routers?

We need to make sure before purchasing it.

[Sandeep Choudhary · Accepted solution]

No there is no diff with respect to features.

Just the compliance status....https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/prod/wireless/wireless-compliance-tool/index.html

It just a regulatory domain of the device is diff means every country has own frequency channel structure and max allowed power by these APs.

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[GunjanBhavsar39984]

Thanks for the reply.

[Karsten Iwen]

And be aware that these devices are not wireless routers. They are access-points. Could be that you are generally looking at the wrong product category.

[GunjanBhavsar39984]

Hi Krasten,
Thanks for reply.
We do not have much idea about the difference between access point and router. Our other team in Singapore has the setup for WIFI connectivity testing using this Cisco Aironet AP. And they are asking us to buy the same in India also. They have better knowledge about the it and they would help us to understand and setup the AP here.

Could you let us know the difference between the router and AP? We only know about Router.
Please provide links to the page which shows specifications for both the item - router and AP

Thanks and Regards,
Gunjan

[GunjanBhavsar39984]

Hi Krasten,
I checked with the team in Singapore which has already purchased and using the Cisco Aironet AP 2800i series.
What they say is it can act as Wireless router also i.e., they can configure it to act as a router. The only difference is that, they have only one Ethernet cable unlike other wireless router. They connected devices, this devices has IP addresses, and they can communicate over TCP/IP.

So is that correct that the AP can be configured as wireless router?

Please help to understand the terminologies.

[Sandeep Choudhary · Accepted solution]

Gunjan,

In simple term: A router is a device that sends packets to destinations (routes them from one to another destination), and an AP is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to it by using of the antennas(Internal or Externals).

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[GunjanBhavsar39984]

Hi Sandeep,
Thanks for reply.
Our team in Singapore told that, the Cisco AP device can also be used as wireless router. This is configurable using command line access.
Just want to confirm that this is correct or not.

Regards,
Gunjan

[Sandeep Choudhary]

Gunjan,

As you post the model number in 1st post: AIR-AP2802I-D-K9

It is a Access point not a wireless router.

This AP can be used as a standlaone AP (Mobility express) or as Lightweight AP (Need Wireless controller to make it work) and it will server the wireless clients.

Question is, what exactly you want to achieve and what are your requirements ?

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[GunjanBhavsar39984]

Hi Sandeep,
Our Requirements:
Our Singapore team has been testing with this AP with our wireless printer product. We have some issues of TCP/IP data transfer when our printer is connected with the PC through this AP. We could send data using TCP/IP but looks like between 2 TCP packets, there is some time gap. So to investigate the issue in detail and replicate it here, we want to buy the same AP here in India as well.
Note: Originally Singapore team purchased this AP to perform testing our printer with EAP-FAST security. Later we found out that with other securities also the data transfer with printer has some issue when connected with this AP.


As you said that it is the Access point and not the wireless router, then I was wondering, how the TCP data transfer is possible between two devices (Printer and PC). I mean, if the printer send some data over TCP/IP to the printer IP address, how the AP would route this data to printer without routing capabilities.

I checked with our Singapore team and they said that they can perform data transfer. But after your answer I became a bit confused.

Regards,
Gunjan

[Sandeep Choudhary]

If AP and PC are in same subnet then it will work .

If AP and PC are in diff subnet then there should be seperate device (Router/Layer 3) devices who can route the packets.

As you said that Singpore team confirmed about data transfer between PC and AP then go ahead with the plan.

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