The Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point provides reliable wireless connectivity for mission-critical applications in a state-of-the art platform. It can operate as Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi (CAPWAP) mode or Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) mode starting from IOS XE Cupertino 17.9.3 Software Release. The IW9167EH access point has the flexibility to change the operating mode from Wi-Fi to Cisco URWB, and vice versa.

Starting from Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.1, Workgroup Bridge (WGB) and Universal WGB (uWGB) are supported on the Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Points.

This document covers configuration of CAPWAP mode and WGB/uWGB mode specific to the IW9167EH access points.

For CAPWAP mode, the access points can operate in the following modes:

• Local

• Flexconnect

• Bridge

• Flexconnect + Bridge

• Sniffer

• Monitor

• Site survey

Software images are stored under different folders on the same partition on IW9167EH.

You need to choose the image to boot up with according to the mode your AP is runnning, CAPWAP, Cisco URWB, or WGB/uWGB. The following table provides the software images of each mode:

To determine the image that your IW9167EH is running, use the show version command.

• If the show version output displays Cisco AP Software, (ap1g6a) as shown in the following example, it means that AP is running the CAPWAP image ap1g6a-k9w8-xxx.tar, which supports the CAPWAP mode.

  Cisco AP Software, (ap1g6a), C9167, RELEASE SOFTWARE
  Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
  Copyright (c) 1986-2022 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
  Compiled Fri Jul 29 01:56:00 PDT 2022
  
  ROM: Bootstrap program is U-Boot boot loader
  BOOTLDR: U-Boot boot loader Version 2022010100
  
  APFC58.9A16.E648 uptime is 0 days, 1 hours, 03 minutes
  Last reload time   : Mon Sep 19 02:23:13 UTC 2022
  Last reload reason : Image Upgrade
   
  cisco IW9167EH-B ARMv8 Processor rev 4 (v8l) with 1757076/1006864K bytes of memory.
  

• If the show version output displays Cisco AP Software (ap1g6j) as shown in the following example, it means that AP is running ap1g6j-k9c1-xxx.tar image, which supports the Cisco URWB mode or Cisco WGB/uWGB.

  Cisco AP Software, (ap1g6j), C9167, RELEASE SOFTWARE 
  Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
  Copyright (c) 1986-2022 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
  Compiled Thu Aug 18 01:01:29 PDT 2022
  
  ROM: Bootstrap program is U-Boot boot loader
  BOOTLDR: U-Boot boot loader Version 2022010100
  
  APFC58.9A16.E464 uptime is 1 days, 3 hours, 58 minutes
  Last reload time   : Wed Sep 7 11:17:00 UTC 2022
  Last reload reason : reload command
  
  cisco IW9167EH-B ARMv8 Processor rev 4 (v8l) with 1759128/1091316K bytes of memory.
  

To view all support information for the Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point, see https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/wireless/catalyst-iw9167-series/series.html.

In addition to the documentation available on the support page, you will need to refer to the following guides:

• For information about IW9167EH hardware, see Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point Hardware Installation Guide.

• A full listing of the AP's features and specifications is provided in Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point Data Sheet.

• For more information about the configuration on Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, see https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/wireless/catalyst-9800-series-wireless-controllers/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html.

• For information about Cisco URWB mode configuration, see the relevant documents at:

  https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/wireless/catalyst-iw9167-series/series.html.

• For more information about Cisco IOS XE, see the relevant documents at:

  http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/ios-nx-os-software/ios-xe/index.html