Allied Telesis AT-WR4500 manual Introduction

12	AT-WR4500 Series - IEEE 802.11abgh Outdoor Wireless Routers
	RouterOS v3 Configuration and User Guide

1 Introduction

Thank you for purchasing an AT-WR4500 series Wireless Router.

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Please refer to the ATWR45xx Quick Installation Guide for information on how to install connect and initially setup each router model.

The WR4500 family of dual band outdoor wireless base routers and routing CPEs allow the building of wireless only or hybrid IP networks that are scalable, reliable and fully controllable.

Wireless ISPs can easily and quickly provide homes in rural areas with broadband Internet access and VoIP telephony and, at the same time, can set-up WiFi hot spots for nomadic users.

Enterprises can connect remote buildings without the need for expensive leased lines and can extend WiFi coverage to outdoor yards providing users with mobile intranet and Internet access everywhere. Municipalities can build wireless IP networks for connecting remote offices and for increasing public safety with real time monitored surveillance cameras and continuous communication with local police patrols. Local utilities can easily control their remote equipments and read, in real time, gas, water and electricity meters without any need for expensive fiber cabling.

Hot spot services can be provided to hotel guests and hospital patients ‘illuminating’ rooms from outside the building with a reduced impact on medical equipments because no transmit radio will be installed inside the hospital.

The single radio AT-WR4561 model can be used as either a base router, a hot spot or a wireless CPE while the dual radio AT-WR4562 can be deployed at the same time as both a wireless only base router and hot spot or base station in a Point to Multipoint configuration.

The AT-WR4542 with its embedded high gain antenna is best suited for being used as a wireless CPE connecting to an AT-WR4561 or AT-WR4562 base router or can be deployed in couples for realizing long reach high performances Point to Point links.

Flexibility is the primary advantage of the WR4500 family of wireless base routers. All products share the same software and features and differ only in the number of radio interfaces.

Access	Backbone
Network	Network

5GHz
	5GHz
2.4GHz	Landline
	IP Net
2.4 / 5GHz
	5GHz

2.4GHz

Figure 1: AT-WR4500 Series typical application