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Does AirMatch avoid using channels where radar is detected?

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  • 1.  Does AirMatch avoid using channels where radar is detected?

    Posted Nov 23, 2020 08:48 AM
    Does AirMatch do any passive scanning for radar presence?  If not, when radar related channel changes do occur does AirMatch stop assigning those channels to avoid reoccurrence?

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    Steve Tracey
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  • 2.  RE: Does AirMatch avoid using channels where radar is detected?

    MVP GURU
    Posted Nov 23, 2020 09:01 AM
    Bottom of the first page should answer your question:

    https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/tg/TB_AirMatch.pdf


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    Dustin Burns
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  • 3.  RE: Does AirMatch avoid using channels where radar is detected?

    Posted Nov 23, 2020 09:24 AM
    Okay but that is not really different from what ARM already had been doing.  What I find faulty with ARM is that ARM will reassign those same channels (where radar was detected) to your APs again, often in the same day.  So will AirMatch do the same 24 hours later or is it intelligent enough to keep those channels out of play?  Are there passive scans for radar going on to prevent assignment of those channels in the first place or is AirMatch just reacting to radar like ARM?

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    Steve Tracey
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  • 4.  RE: Does AirMatch avoid using channels where radar is detected?
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    Posted Nov 23, 2020 10:16 AM
    If AirMatch detects a radar activity , it will invoke a channel change (One with a lower inference index) and avoids any channels that radar was detected (the last 30 minutes).
    AirMatch creates a new solution every 30 minutes throughout the day and then it deploys the best solution at the 24 hour mark , if those channels are still affected then it will not use those.
    Two consecutive radar events will blacklist a channel for 12 hours within a 24-hour period.

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    Victor Fabian, ACEX#8
    Mobility Architect @ WEI
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