Because who hasn’t wanted to make a Christmas tree out of wireless access points?
From the section of Reddit devoted to networking, we get this magnificent specimen submitted by user “Suddenly_a_Mexican:”
And here is an explanation from Reddit user “d0manic,” apparently a co-worker:
“The tree is comprised of 14, (Cisco Aironet) 1702i APs and the ‘star’ AP is a 2702i which permits it to also flash blue. These are all associated to a 2504 Wireless LAN Controller going to a POE switch behind the tree. The command “config ap led-state flash indefinite [ap name]” makes them all flash the way they do.
“The controller is associated with Cisco Prime Infrastructure which we can also use to issue random lighting effects on a scheduled basis. All radios are turned off except the top one which broadcasts at low power, “Christmas Tree”.
“The construction supplies were about $50 and it bends at the center for portability. The APs themselves were about $300ish apiece except for the 2700 which was closer to $500ish (you can do the math).”
Someone did and came up with $4,750 for an answer. Not clear who footed the bill.
Among the comments: “It Came Upon a Midnight Clearchannel” and “spanning tree protocol.”
And, of course, the AP tree inspired at least one would-be imitator:
“Holy crap, that is so awesome. … Now I’m frantically running around trying to find a POE switch to plug all these into.” These being:
You know you want to.
