AirLive WH-9100MESH - Manual (Page 6)

Chapter 1: Introduce
1.1 Introduce
The AirLive WH-9100MESH product is ruggedized and wall-mountable IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access
Point (AP) and Bridge device. The AP and Bridge mode can work simultaneously by dual radio
interfaces. The WH-9100MESH serial products are designed for use in industrial and outdoor
environments. They are powered by the Power over Ethernet (PoE) to simple cabling installations. So,
they are suitable to set up at outdoor environment and using AP function to provide wireless network
service and Bridge function to link to another location where is within infrastructure network.
The WH-9100MESH product is designed as a high security wireless network device. They are with the
following cryptographic modules: WEP (64,128or 152 bits), WPA (TKIP / AES-CCMP) or WPA2 in AP
mode, and AES-CCMP (128 bits) for the bridging mode; and HTTPS/TLS for secure web
communication. Moreover, the WH-9100MESH serial products also provide the wireless client MAC
address filtering, Rogue AP detection to protect your wireless network.
There are serial of products for you choose. The 9100MESH is the basic line product works at 2.4GHz
band (802.11b/g) and 5GHz (802.11a) with AP and bridge function. The 9100MESH also provides
Super G / Turbo A function to enhance transmit data rate up to 108Mbps. (Turbo A mode doesn’t
support at ETSI domain region.) The 9100MESH adopts newest 802.11i WPA2 standard to enhance
the wireless security. The major feature of 9100MESH is Wireless Mesh Network function and
introduce at section 1.1.3. The 9100MESH works at 2.4GHz and 5GHz band too. The 9100MESH also
provides Gateway mode, Layer 2 (Client) isolation, Multiple SSID/VLAN and Gateway Mode
features. When 9100MESH set up at Gateway mode, it provides firewall function to enhance network
security.
1.1.1 802.11g Super and 802.11a Turbo:
802.11g Super and 802.11a Turbo technologies provide speed and throughput of more than double
standard wireless LAN technologies in networking products. The Maximum link speed available is
108Mbps and the typical maximum end-user throughput ranges from approximately 40Mbps to
60+Mbps, depending on application demand and network environment.
1.1.2 Wireless Mesh Network:
The mesh network function let you set up the point-to-multipoint bridge function easily. You don’t need
to key in each remote bridge’s BSSID (WLAN MAC address) to form bridge topology. It calls as
auto-forming function. Beside the auto-forming function, it also detects network topology status. If some
of bridge devices are log out, the other devices will find out it and re-forming network topology again.
This is also call as auto-hearing function.
1.1.4 AP Mode vs. Gateway Mode
At AP mode, IP address for wireless devices are typically assigned by the wired network’s DHCP server.
The AP virtually connects wireless users to the host wired network. All wireless devices connected to
the AP are configured on the same sub network as the wired network interface and can be accessed by
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