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SiteOmat Setup and Maintenance Manual – MDE 4817G

Infrastructure

An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an infrastructure

configuration.

LAN

Local Area Network

Roaming

A function that allows one to travel with a mobile end system (wireless LAN

mobile station, for example) through the territory of a domain (an ESS, for

example) while continuously connecting to the infrastructure.

TCP/IP

Communication protocol used in Ethernet/Internet.

Triple DES

A method of data encryption.

WAN

Wide Area Network

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy. The optional cryptographic confidentiality

algorithm specified by IEEE 802.11 used to provide data confidentiality that

is subjectively equivalent to the confidentiality of a wired local area network

(LAN) medium that does not employ cryptographic techniques to enhance

privacy.

WG

Wireless Gateway