Regulatory Compliance (Rest of the World) for Domain Reduction

Regulatory compliance domain

A regulatory domain is a set of country-specific rules that

  • are designed for use in multiple countries with varying regulatory requirements

  • enables you to specify a particular country of operation, such as FR for France or ES for Spain, and

  • ensures that each radio’s broadcast frequency bands, interfaces, channels, and transmit power levels comply with country-specific regulations.

This feature reduces the number of regulatory domains by updating the pre-provisioned domains workflow. It determines the regulatory domain at runtime for each country code. The new Rest of World (RoW) domain includes the nine earlier domains. Each AP selects its regulatory domain from these options by referencing the regulated power table and allowed radio channels.

The transmission power value in the TPC IE of the beacon may differ from the AP's transmission power value, value by up to 2 dB. You can check this difference by using the show controllers dot11radio command. The maximum allowed deviation in the TPC IE of the beacon is two dB.

Global country-level domains

This topic lists detailed information about the power table and supported channels of countries in the global domain for 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz, and Rest of World domains.

Ensure 6 GHz radio band persistence after CAPWAP reset

This procedure describes how to configure the AP radio role to manual for slot 2. This change ensures that the 6 GHz radio band remains active, even after a CAPWAP reset. If the radio role is set to auto, the AP might revert to the 5 GHz band upon reset.

Before you begin

Ensure you have CLI access to the AP.

Procedure

Step 1

Verify the current radio role configuration. From the AP CLI, check the current radio configuration for slot 2.

Example:

show capwap client config | i Radio

If the output shows the radio role for slot 2 as auto, proceed to Step 2.

If the output shows the radio role for slot 2 as manual, no further action is required for this setting

Step 2

Configure the radio role to manual and set the 6 GHz band. Execute these commands on the AP CLI to set the radio role for slot 2 to manual and configure it for the 6 GHz band. This step ensures the controller applies the manual radio role to the AP.

Example:

ap name NAME dot11 dual-band slot 2 shutdown
ap name NAME dot11 dual-band slot 2 radio role manual client-serving
ap name NAME dot11 dual-band slot 2 band 5ghz
ap name NAME dot11 no dual-band slot 2 shutdown
ap name NAME dot11 dual-band slot 2 shutdown
ap name NAME dot11 dual-band slot 2 band 6ghz