User's Manual

Network Configuration and Planning

The wireless solution supports a stand-alone wireless network configuration, as well as

an integrated wireless and 10/100 Mbps wired LAN configuration.

The AP-2000 PC Card can be configured as:

• Infrastructure – for enterprise LANs

Network Topologies

Infrastructure Wireless LAN

The AP-2000 PC Card can also provide access to a wired LAN for wireless clients. An

integrated wired/wireless LAN is called an infrastructure configuration. A Basic Service

Set (BSS) consists of a group of wireless PCs, and an access point that is directly

connected to the wired LAN. Each wireless PC in this BSS can talk to any computer in its

wireless group via a radio link, or access other computers or network resources in the

wired LAN infrastructure via the access point.

The infrastructure configuration not only extends the accessibility of wireless PCs to the

wired LAN, but also increases the effective wireless transmission range for wireless PCs

by passing their signal through one or more access points.

A wireless infrastructure can be used for access to a central database, or for connecting

mobile workers.

Infrastructure Wireless LAN for Roaming Wireless PCs

The Basic Service Set (BSS) is the communications domain for each Wireless Access

Point. For wireless PCs that do not need to support roaming, set the domain identifier

(SSID) for the wireless card to the SSID of the access point to which you want to connect.

Check with your administrator for the SSID of the access point to which he wants you to

connect.