Remote access point

[elvin.conopoy1]

Regards, i'm sorry but, i don't speak so good english, i help myself with a translator, i'm informatic engineer student and i'm doing an investigation about networks wireless, i have the following scenario, two distant buildings E1 and E2, the first is the headquarters  where there a private network, I need to know if there a cisco device that connects through a VPN to the network that is building E1 and that allows connect through wifi to a group of people in a meeting room at E2, also I can change that device to another room without any additional configuration. I think that that device is named remote access point. someone can help me please.

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Hi Elvin,

Yes, as long as you have Cisco wireless network  (managed via wireless LAN controller - WLC) in building E1 then you can extend it to any other building.

In your case if there is no direct connectivity (fibre or any other medium) between E1 & E2 buildings, but still have some internet connectivity to building E2, you can configure a Cisco AP as "Office Extend" mode you can extend a WLAN available in E1 to that AP.

Refer below post to see how you configure AP in this mode

https://mrncciew.com/2013/01/15/configuring-oeap/

Once configure, you can take this AP anywhere & plug it to internet connected data point & it will make your SSID available in that location.

HTH

Rasika

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[mohanak]

It depends on the number of users in E2, if users are few in number then you can go with OEAP models, else flexconnect will be a better option.

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/solutions/CVD/Apr2014/CVD-CiscoOfficeExtendDesignGuide-APR14.pdf