WESM zl Management and Configuration Guide WT.01.28 and greater

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Introduction
Radio Ports
Therefore, you can configure radio settings in two ways: for all RP radios or for
particular radios.
The Wireless Edge Services zl Module handles all WLAN settings. Indeed, one of
the advantages of the Wireless Edge Services zl Module is that you can more quickly
and easily establish a WLAN throughout an entire wireless network. (If necessary,
you can use advanced mode configuration to disable a WLAN on a particular RP.
See Chapter 4: “Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs).”)
Note Do not confuse the module’s configuration with the RPs’ configurations. You con-
figure settings on the module, many, but not all of which, it pushes down to RPs.
Radio Adoption Default Configurations
The Wireless Edge Services zl Module stores two radio adoption default configura-
tions, one for 802.11a radios and one for 802.11 bg radios. In this way, each type of
radio receives the correct channel, data rate sets, and other settings that may differ
according to the 802.11 mode.
When a new RP is adopted, the module sends it the default configuration for its radio
type. (If the RP has two radios, the module sends both configurations.)
The factory default configuration for the Wireless Edge Services zl Module already
includes the two radio adoption default configurations, with the settings shown in
Table 1-6. Note, however, that the configurations do not yet include the country code,
which you must set before the module can deploy them.
Table 1-6. Factory Default Settings for Radio Adoption Default Configurations
Setting 802.11a 802.11bg
Placement Indoors Indoors
Channel Random Random
Power Depends on country code Depends on country code
Rate settings (in Mbps) Basic: 6, 12, 24
Supported: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36,
48, 54
Basic: 1, 2, 5.5, 11
Supported: 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11,
12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
Antenna mode Diversity Diversity
Maximum stations 64 64
RTS threshold (bytes) 2346 2346
Beacon interval (microseconds) 100 100