Procurement delivered indoor office APs for a city yard that must mount hardware on an exterior wall above a loading dock. What mismatch should the technician catch before installation?
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Short Explanation
Indoor plastic and rain do not mix. If the mount is outside above a dock, you need outdoor-rated gear—not a lobby AP with a hopeful paint job. Catch the SKU mismatch before the first storm does.
Full Explanation
When procurement delivers indoor office APs for a city yard that must mount hardware on an exterior wall above a loading dock, the technician should catch that outdoor mounting requires outdoor-rated APs (or outdoor enclosures per design), not indoor office SKUs. Environmental rating mismatches cause weather failures and unsafe installs on municipal yards. Stopping installation until the correct outdoor-rated hardware arrives protects the project.
Indoor APs are not preferred outdoors merely because they cost less, and they do not weather-seal themselves. Any AP SKU is not outdoor-ready simply because the SSID name includes Outdoor. Painting an indoor AP gray does not create an outdoor rating for city yards.
Exam caveat: catch indoor-versus-outdoor SKU mismatches at staging before crews climb ladders. Operational check: compare delivered model numbers to the outdoor-rated BOM line items, quarantine indoor SKUs, and reschedule dock mounting only after outdoor-rated APs and approved mounts are on site. Escalate indoor-versus-outdoor mismatches to procurement with model numbers so the loading-dock schedule is not blocked twice. Confirm success with a second client on the same civic SSID before closing the ticket.