User Manual Part 2

APPENDIX D: GLOSSARY

Access Point ― An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and

wireless networks.

Ad-Hoc ― An independent wireless LAN network formed by a group of computers,

each with an network adapter.

AP Client – One of the additional AP operating modes offered by 22Mbps Access

Point, which allows the Access Point to act as an Ethernet-to-Wireless Bridge, thus a

LAN or a single computer station can join a wireless ESS network through it.

ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, is one of the

two formats that you can use for entering the values for WEP key. It represents

English letters as numbers from 0 to 127.

Authentication Type ― Indication of an authentication algorithm which can be

supported by the Access Point:

1. Open System : Open System authentication is the simplest of the available

authentication algorithms. Essentially it is a null authentication algorithm.

Any station that requests authentication with this algorithm may become

authenticated if 802.11 Authentication Type at the recipient station is set to

Open System authentication.

2. Shared Key : Shared Key authentication supports authentication of stations

as either a member of those who knows a shared secret key or a member of

those who does not.

Backbone ― The core infrastructure of a network, which transports information from

one central location to another where the information is unloaded into a local system.

Bandwidth ― The transmission capacity of a device, which is calculated by how

much data the device can transmit in a fixed amount of time expressed in bits per

second (bps).

Basic Rate ― the fixed transmitted and receiving data rate allowed by the AP with

the value 1,2,5.5, 11 and 22 Mbps for selection.