User Manual Part 1

Wi-Fi Array
90 Installing the Wi-Fi Array
WDS Planning
WDS (Wireless Distribution System) creates wireless backhauls between arrays,
allowing your wireless network to be expanded using multiple Arrays without
the need for a wired backbone to link them (see Figure 32). WDS features include:
 One to three IAPs may be used to form a single WDS link, yielding up to
900 Mbps bandwidth per link (up to 162 Mbps for XS model Arrays). Up
to three different WDS links may be created on a single Array.
 Automatic IAP Load Balancing
 If desired, you may allow clients to associate to a BSS on the same radio
interface used for a WDS Host Link. This will take bandwidth from the
WDS link.
Figure 32. WDS Link
 Multiple links per Array allow you to configure multi-hop connections.