Compex Technologies WPE54 manual Hardware Installation Product Overview, Introduction

Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

Chapter 1 Product Overview

1.1Introduction

The 54Mbps wireless access point is a compact and high performance access point that is designed with support for high security features like WPA, IEEE 802.1x Authentication and 64-bit or 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy. The exclusive wireless LAN technology Wireless Pseudo VLAN further enhances security in wireless hotspot networks in isolating different users into their own VLANs. The access point is capable of operating in 5 different modes: Access Point Bridging, Access Point Client, Gateway, Wireless Routing Client and Wireless Ethernet Adapter; making it suitable for all kinds of wireless applications.

1.2Features and Benefits

The access point has been designed for high performance and offers a rich suite of features, with which you should acquaint yourself to be able to exploit the access point’s full potential

Wireless Distribution System

This unique feature allows linking of several access points, virtually creating a larger wireless network infrastructure that allows desktops or laptops that are connected to the access point to share their network resources wirelessly.

Pseudo Virtual LAN

The unique Wireless Pseudo Virtual LAN technology is a feature that allows a wireless client or groups of wireless client to be segmented wirelessly into its individual workgroup or individual node thus enhancing the privacy of the wireless clients. This is especially useful in public hotspot deployment.

Secured Wireless Authentication

The access point supports the latest wireless security standard—WPA. The wireless users now enjoy the freedom of wireless roaming without worrying important data being exposed to outsiders. WPA has two different modes: WPA-PSK for SOHO users and WPA-EAP for Enterprise users. The access point supports WPA-EAP using IEEE 802.1x-based Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) for secure and centralized user-based authentication. The wireless clients are now able to authentication through a RADIUS server to the authorized network through highly secured authentication methods like EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, and EAP-PEAP.

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