Patent ID: 8867508

Claim:
A method for communication, the method comprising: in a wireless access point (AP) radio that is fully contained within a cable, wherein the cable contains one or more other wireless AP radios that are fully contained in the cable, and the cable is communicatively coupled to a wireless controller: receiving power by the wireless AP radio from the wireless controller via the cable by a direct connection within the cable; receiving feature information and configuration parameter settings by the wireless AP radio from the wireless controller via the cable by a direct connection within the cable; providing wireless access and wireless communication services by the wireless AP radio for one or more client devices that are communicatively coupled to the wireless AP radio based on the received feature information and the received configuration parameter settings; and when one or more adjacent wireless AP radios integrated in the cable become non-operational, increasing transmission power of the wireless AP radio to increase a coverage of the wireless AP radio to cover at least a portion of coverage area associated with the one or more adjacent wireless AP radios.