You may consider an outdoor or hardened AP as mesh (or WLAN client) and bridging to the ethernet port.
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 10, 2024 03:07 PM
From: DaveSpencer
Subject: industrial Wireless Bridge Options
We used to use the 501 wireless bridge in some industrial scenarios. With the EoS passed, i'm looking for alternatives.
One of my upcoming uses it to provide wireless connectivity to warehouse cranes. We have single terminals located in the crane cabs, which have poor reception in the cab (warehouse area has good coverage). Our environment prefers some ruggedization due to the particulate in the air and the temperature.
We would normally install a wirelsss bridge with an omni antenna on the Crane bridge, with an ethernet link directly into the crane cab's terminal. Most of the Aruba AP's do the point-to-point mesh, but they seem like overkill on single device connection where a regular wireless bridge would suffice.
I'm interested in hearing what products would be recommended as alternatives to the 501.