Chapter 1 Introducing the NWA

1.2.5 Pre-Configured SSID Profiles

The NWA has two pre-configured SSID profiles.

•VoIP_SSID. This profile is intended for use by wireless clients requiring the highest QoS level for VoIP telephony and other applications requiring low latency. The QoS level of this profile is not user-configurable.

•Guest_SSID. This profile is intended for use by visitors and others who require access to certain resources on the network (an Internet gateway or a network printer, for example) but must not have access to the rest of the network. Layer 2 isolation is enabled (see Section on page 178), and QoS is set to NONE.

Intra-BSS traffic blocking is also enabled (see Section 8.1.2 on page 120). These fields are all user-configurable.

1.2.6Configuring Dual WLAN Adaptors

The NWA is equipped with dual wireless adaptors. This means you can configure two different wireless networks to operate simultaneously.

In the following example, the NWA (Z) uses WLAN1 in Access Point mode to allow IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g clients to access the wired network, and WLAN2 in AP+Bridge mode to allow an IEEE 802.11a AP to communicate with the wired network.

Figure 9 Dual WLAN Adaptors Example

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WLAN2

 

 

WLAN1

 

 

 

 

 

 

802.11b/g

802.11a

 

 

Access Point

AP + Bridge

Internet

 

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