Welcome to the Aironet 4000 Series Wireless LAN Adapter
Figure 1.6 - Heavy Overlap Coverage Option
Wired LAN
By arranging the Access Points so the overlap in coverage area is nearly maximized, a large number of mobile stations can be supported in the same wireless infrastructure. How- ever, units in overlapping coverage areas on the same fre- quency will detect adjacent cell traffic and delay transmissions that would cause collisions. This reduces the aggregate radio system throughput. Heavy cell overlap is not recommended for maximum system throughput. Due to the redundancy in coverage overlap, system access is not lost in the event of an Access Point failure. Upon failure of the Access Point, the station will automatically roam to an operational Access Point. With this architecture, all Access Points and PC Card units must be configured with the same Service Set Identifier (SSID).
