Hand Held Products manual Dolphin 7400/7450 RF Terminal

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Dolphin 7400/7450 RF Terminal

The Dolphin® 7400 and 7450 RF terminals integrate the basic functionality of the Batch terminal with a radio frequency interface that allows the terminal to communicate with a host computer via a wireless local area network (WLAN).

Dolphin 7400/7450 terminals have one Type II PCMCIA card slot to allow for an interface with either the Cisco® 2.4 GHz 802.11b DSSS WLAN radio or Symbol® Technologies Spectrum24 FHSS 2Mb WLAN radio.

The Cisco® radio uses direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology, which spreads its signal continuously over a wide frequency band, and provides an Ethernet-like data rate of up to 11 megabits per second.

The security of wireless networks is greatly enhanced with the use of LEAP (Dynamic WEP), an industry-leading, centralized security solution developed by Cisco®. LEAP combines several innovations including dynamic, per user, per-session WEP and integrated network logon to promote secure hassle-free enterprise deployment.

The radio may also provide up to 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption. WEP is used to encrypt and decrypt data signals transmitted between Wireless LAN (WLAN) devices. The optional WEP security mechanism is available with 128-bit or 40-bit encryption.

Dolphin 7400/7450 RF is interoperable with other 802.11b WiFi®-compliant products such as printers and PCs via PC-card adapters.

Refer to Chapters 1 and 2 in this manual for more on basic operation of the Dolphin terminal.

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