User Guide

Table Of Contents
XVI
ES520 Bridge: Glossary
WiMAX
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access—the IEEE 802.16 specification for
fixed, broadband, wireless MANs that use a point-to-multipoint architecture, defining
bandwidth use in the licensed frequency range of 10GHz–66GHz and the licensed and
unlicensed frequency range of 2GHZ–11GHz.
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System—a means for detecting and preventing unauthor-
ized or unwelcome connections to a network.
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network. A local area network that allows mobile users network
access through radio waves rather than cables.
WMM®
Wi-Fi Multimedia wireless quality of service implementation defined in subset of the
IEEE standard 802.11e,
QoS for Wireless LAN
.
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access—a security protocol for wireless networks, defined in the IEEE
802.11i amendment, that uses 802.1X and EAP to restrict network access, and TKIP
encryption to secure data transfer. WPA is intended to replace WEP in current and
future 802.11 standards.
WPA2
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2—a later implementation of WPA that uses the FIPS 140-2
compliant AES encryption algorithm.