Thus, integrated Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access networks are considered as a scalable and economical means for broadband access. Combining complementary features of these two technologies for broadband access is imminent and meritorious. Although untethered features of wireless networks are attractive, their limited supported bandwidth cannot answer today's enormous demands.

Moreover, fiber cannot directly reach mobile users and devices. However, implementing optical fiber to all end points imposes considerable CAPEX. Fiber-based technologies such as Fiber To The Home (FTTH), Fiber To The Building (FTTB), and Fiber To The Curb (FTTC) are well suited to support high bandwidth services and mitigate bandwidth bottlenecks. In FiWi, end points receive services through a wireless subnetwork, which acts as the front end and is connected to the optical subnetwork, which serves as the back end via gateway nodes.Ībstract = 'Optical access network is a promising solution to meet the ever-increasing demand for broadband services. I run a LUCI (cut down on the wr703n) on all of these devices but there is no luci-proto-vxlan available on 19.07.8, you must use uci to configure it.Optical access network is a promising solution to meet the ever-increasing demand for broadband services.my use case is an internal work, I'm not trying to use this over the internet or a wide area.I haven't done any testing regarding cpu load or throughput testing. The gre libraries and modules are ~30k installed and the vxlan modues are about 45k installed. I'll play further with this and start running vlans across it and report back if I have any issues. The vxlan peeraddr (239.1.1.1) is the same on each device. The network config only varies on each device to have a unique lan and link address. Part of /etc/config/network config interface 'lan' I found by using the multipoint peer address I could easily configure a point to multipoint vxlan network and add to it without needing any changes on the master AP. So I set up a test network using three wr703n devices with a cut down image removing everything not needed (ipv6, ppp, firewall etc) for an internal network device. Looking further I found mention of point to multipoint for vxlan using a multipoint peer address. I found mention of vxlan as an alternative and thought I'd give it a go. This works ok but any addon requires setting up a unique tunnel on the master for each trunk link. Configured this ok and managed to configure two tunnels to a single endpoint on the master AP using a separate key for each gre tunnel. My next setup was to drop the WDS link and use a plain AP-STA link with a gre tunnel. Unfortunately WDS broke and prompted me to look at options (for entertainment and education mainly). Originally I had this setup using WDS as the backbone and bridged to 2.4g user network. Master AP (archer c7v5, snapshot) -> secondary AP (wr842v1, 20.02.0)Īll firmware custom built using imagebuilder.īit of an mixed bag of devices but they still work. Just some observations and thoughts re trunking over wifi.

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