Fast Roaming with Mesh Access Points

Instant supports fast roaming for APs deployed in a wireless mesh network. The mesh points for which fast roaming is enabled are called mobility mesh points. Fast roaming on mesh APs is required mainly in fast moving environments such as buses or the subway. To support fast roaming, mobility mesh points perform a scan of other mesh points in the background first and then choose the best neighbor to connect from all the neighbors. The background scan implies when mesh is connected, the mesh point collects information about surrounding channels through background scanning. The mobility mesh point scan time between radio channels is altered to be faster than the mesh point scan in a regular mesh network. This feature is currently supported only on 203H Series, 203R Series, 207 Series, 300 Series, 310 Series, 320 Series, 330 Series, AP-365, 340 Series, 370 Series, 500 Series, 500H Series, 510 Series, 530 Series, 550 Series, 560 Series, and 570 Series access points.

The following CLI Command-Line Interface. A console interface with a command line shell that allows users to execute text input as commands and convert these commands to appropriate functions. command enables fast roaming on a mesh point: