Technical Specs
Table Of Contents
- Cisco Connected Grid WPAN Module for CGR 1000 Series Installation and Cisco Resilient Mesh Configuration Guide (Cisco IOS)
- Cisco Connected Grid WPAN Module for CGR 1000 Series Installation and Cisco Resilient Mesh Configuration Guide (Cisco IOS)
- Hardware Overview
- WPAN Antennas, Connectors, and Cables
- Installing and Removing the Module
- Technical Specifications
- Information About Cisco Resilient Mesh and WPAN
- Configuring Cisco Resilient Mesh and the WPAN Module
- Configuring the WPAN Interface
- Configuring the CGM WPAN OFDM Module
- Configuring Adaptive Modulation
- Configuring Group Multicast
- Configuring RPL
- Configuring IPv6
- Configuring PON RPL
- Configuring the Power Outage Server
- Configuring QoS
- Configuring Cisco Resilient Mesh Security
- Configuring IPv6 Multicast Agent
- Configuring Dual-PHY WPAN
- Configuring DTLS Relay for EST
- Configuring Wi-SUN Mode
- Verifying Connectivity to the CGR
- show Command Examples
- Debugging the WPAN Module
- Sample Router Configuration
- Sample CGR and ASR Configuration
- Checking and Upgrading the WPAN Firmware Version
- Related Documentation
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
the communication module. Resilient Mesh Endpoints (RMEs) support an IEEE 802.15.4e/g interface and standards-based IPv6
communication stack, including security and network management.
Cisco Resilient Mesh supports a frequency-hopping radio link, network discovery, link-layer network access control, network-layer
auto configuration, IPv6 routing and forwarding, firmware upgrade, and power outage notification. See Power Outage Notification,
on page 23.
The CGR runs the IPv6 Routing Protocol over Low Power and Lossy Networks, also known as RPL. The IPv6 Layer-3 RPL protocol
is used to build the mesh network. It serves as an RPL Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) root and stores information reported in
Destination Advertisement Object (DAO) messages to forward datagrams to individual nodes within the mesh network.
Figure 5: Cisco Resilient Mesh Functional Overview
The network provides a communication platform for two-way wireless communication with Smart Grid assets, such as residential
electric meters or distribution automation devices, and supports multiple application services simultaneously, such as Advanced
Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Distribution Automation (DA).
For more information on the IEEE 802.15.4 link, see Frequency Hopping, on page 15.
You can configure a CGR with dual WPANs for either of the following scenarios:
• Multiple WPANs can operate in the network, each as independent WPAN and independent Cisco Resilient Mesh. In this
configuration, each WPAN forms a separate RPL tree and mesh, and each must have a unique IPv6 prefix and Service Set
Identifier (SSID).
• A WPAN can also operate in a master-slave configuration. The master WPAN owns the RPL tree and the mesh, and all IPv6
and 802.1x traffic flows through the master WPAN from the perspective of the CGR and IoT FND. Conceptually, the slave
WPAN acts only as a NIC at the MAC and PHY layer. In that sense, the slave WPAN is attached to the master WPAN. For
more information, see Dual-PHY WPAN , on page 26.
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