Prestige 334W User’s Guide
points can provide wireless coverage for an entire building or campus. All communications between stations or between a station and a wired network client go through the access point.
The Extended Service Set (ESS) shown in the next figure consists of a series of overlapping BSSs (each containing an Access Point) connected together by means of a Distribution System (DS). Although the DS could be any type of network, it is almost invariably an Ethernet LAN. Mobile nodes can roam between access points and seamless
Wireless LAN and IEEE 802.11 |