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Appendix C: Glossary

to the home subnet of the end device. If the end device has roamed to another subnet, the frame must be forwarded to the remote subnet where the end device currently resides.

unicast address

A unique Ethernet address assigned to a single device on the network.

VLAN (virtual LAN)

A network of wireless end devices that behave as if they are connected to the same wire even though they may actually be physically located on different segments of a local area network. You can group all wireless users on a particular VLAN in order to manage the IP address space differently. Or you can use VLANs to separate secure and non-secure traffic.

WAP (Wireless Access Point)

Also called a repeater. This access point does not have any connections on its Ethernet port. It forwards data between the access point and the secondary LAN.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption

A feature that can be enabled in the IEEE 802.11b or 802.11a radio that allows data encryption for wireless communications.

wireless bridge

Also called a point-to-point bridge. A wireless link that connects two wired Ethernet segments. Two access points can be used to provide a wireless bridge between two buildings, so that wired and wireless devices in each building can communicate with devices in the other building.

wireless hop

A wireless link that occurs when data from a wireless end device moves from one access point to another access point through the radio ports. Using Allied Telesyn access products, Allied Telesyn recommends that your data does not travel through more than three wireless hops.

Secure wireless hops are created when secure IAPP is enabled. Access points use SWAP to authenticate each other.

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