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Wireless LAN – WLAN
By the use of narrow beam antennas (e.g. AirLancer Extender), also larger dis-
tances can be bridged securely. An additional increase of reach can be
achieved by use of further base stations, which operate in relay mode between
two LAN segments.
Point-to-multipoint
operation
It is poss ibl e to c oup le up to s even remote network segments to an united net-
work by wireless bridges in the so-called P2MP operation (point-to-
multipoint) mode.
Point-to-station
operation
The so-called P2Station operation (point-to-station) connects a single station
is to a remote LAN.
Base station in client mode
For binding single devices with Ethernet interfaces to a Wireless LAN,
LANCOM Wireless base stations can be put into the so-called client mode, in
which they behave like a conventional Wireless LAN adapter and not like a