CPC H04W 88/08 (2013.01) [H04L 69/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/22 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first plug-in network device, a first mesh pairing request from a second plug-in network device;
in response to receiving the first mesh pairing request, sending, through a front-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a first acknowledgment and a second mesh paring request to the second first plug-in network device;
receiving, by the first plug-in network device, a second acknowledgement from the second plug-in network device; and
in response to receiving the second acknowledgement, transmitting, through an up-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a report indicating pairing of the first and second plug-in network devices to a network management system configured to establish a wireless communication pairing link between the first plug-in network device and the second plug-in network device.
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