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1. airPoint XO™ Series
The smartBridges airPoint XO™ products are LongRange™, IEEE
802.11b compliant Access Point devices for deployment of Wireless Wide
Area Networks (WWANs). The airPoint XO™ products deal with four key
areas that are of vital importance in any WWAN network: Subscriber
Bandwidth Management, Advanced Networking Capabilities, Remote
Infrastructure Management and, Carrier-Class Reliability.
Currently there are 2 models in the airPoint XO™ series
1. airPoint XO™ - Outdoor wireless
access point with Bandwidth
Management
2. airPoint XO
2
™ - Dual radio outdoor
wireless access point with Bandwidth
Management
With a suitable external Directional antenna
the airPoint XO™ series can provide range of up to 32 Kilometers. All the
access points in this series provide data rates up to 11Mbps making it one
of the fastest Wireless Access Point family in the market. Encryption
capability of 64 bits or 128 bits provides network security.
The airPoint XO™ series can be used as an access point, client bridge,
wireless bridge and wireless repeater to provide various networking
functions. The dual radio XO
2
™ can be configured to work in Full
Repeater mode, Dual Access Point mode, Cell Extender mode and High
Reliability Access Point mode. Designed to tolerate extreme weather
conditions, the airPoint XO™ series provides a two-layered protection,
through the IEEE 802.3af compliant, PoE Outdoor™ (Power over
Ethernet) accessory for regulatory compliant installations. The radios are
supported by multiple Network Processing Elements to handle heavy
network loads. These devices can be remotely configured, monitored
upgraded, reset and even power cycled, thus allowing ease of
maintenance. Numerous applications like broadband connectivity to far
flung neighborhood homes, wireless networking of PC's in a campus,
wireless networking across waterways, roads, valleys and rough terrain
are possible. The home PC gets connected to the Internet through the