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airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide
intelligent wireless platform
1. Introduction This User Guide provides information on how to set-up the features and deploy the airPoint unit. A
web-based management tool is provided to assist the user in configuring the airPoint unit for
different purposes.
1.1. airPoint™ Nexus Configuration Features
The airPoint web-based management tool pr ovides the user with the following features:
1. System Parameters
2. Device Mode Operation
3. Ethernet and wireless IPs
4. Radio (SSID, domain, channel, security etc) parameters
5. Network bridge (STP, etc) parameters
6. Bandwidth management
7. Antenna alignment
8. Security
9. Traffic Statistics
10. Site Survey
11. Profile management
12. User management
13. Link Test
14. Link Budget Planning Calculator
15. Firmware Upgrade
1.2. System Requirements
The following are the minimum system requirements for the airPoint™ Nexus web-based
configuration management tool:
1. Operating System: either Windows 98/2000/XP/NT or Linux
2. Connection to the internet for downloading the latest firmware and Sun Java
3. Web browser: either Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher, Netscape 7.2 and higher, Mozilla 1.7
and higher or Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and higher
4. SUN JRE: v1.5 and above. You may download it from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp