About This Device
The lower section of an outdoor adapter leads a rough life: it hosts the cable entries, takes the mounting loads, gets levered against during service, and collects every drip the drip loop misses. The 170949-000 is the W2255's bottom cover as a factory service part, replacing the section when threads strip, sealing surfaces score, or impact damage compromises the fit. Like the rest of the W2255's cover-level parts program, it keeps repair economics sane - the platform returns to sealed, serviceable condition for the cost of a housing section, on the fleet's schedule rather than an RMA queue's.
Cover-level parts programs are what separate maintainable outdoor platforms from disposable ones - the W2255's bottom cover being orderable is the point.
Follow the W2255 service documentation: de-energize and demount, transfer gaskets and glands per the guide, fit the new bottom cover, and verify every sealing interface before re-hanging the unit.
Cloud Care Networks stocks the Cradlepoint 170949-000 alongside the gateways and routers it supports, so IT and field-service teams can consolidate antennas, spares, and replacement hardware on a single order.