User's Manual

RLX2 Industrial Hotspot Series
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AES
AdvancedEncryptionStandard.NewstandardforencryptionadoptedbytheU.S.
governmentforsecurecommunications.
Amplifier
Adeviceconnectedtoanantennausedtoincreasethesignalstrengthandamplifyweak
incomingsignals.
Antenna
Adeviceconnectedtoawirelesstransceiverthatconcentratestransmittedandreceived
radiowavestoincreasesignalstrengthandthustheeffectiverangeofawireless
network.
ASCII
AmericanStandardCodeforInformationInterchange.Acommunicationmodeinwhich
eacheight‐bitbyteinamessagecontainsoneASCIIcharactercod e.ASCII characters(or
hexadecimalcharacters)aresometimesusedasakeytoencryptdataandensureits
securetransmission.
Association
Processwherebytwo802.11radiosestablishcommunicationswitheachother.
RequirementsforcommunicationincludecommonSSID(networknames)and
encryptionsettings.
Authenticate
Theprocessofconfirmingtheidentityofsomeoneconnectingtoanetwork.
Authentication Server
Aback‐enddatabaseserverthatconfirmstheidentityofasupplicanttoan
authenticatorinan802.1x‐authenticatednetwork.
B
Band
Anothertermforspectrumusedtoindicateaparticularsetoffrequencies.Wireless
networkingprotocolsworkineitherthe2.4GHzorthe5GHzbands.