EnGenius Technologies EOA7530 User Manual

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communicate with each other.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

SNMP is an Internet‐standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks.

Snooping

Passively watching a network for data that can be used to benefit a hacker, such as passwords.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)

An encryption protocol that uses 128‐bit keys that are dynamically generated and distributed by

the authentication server. TKIP regularly changes and rotates the encryption keys so that the
same encryption key is never used twice.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
A protocol permitting communications over and between networks. The TCP/IP protocol is the

basis for Internet communications.
Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ)

WFQ services queues based on their priority and queue weight. Queues with larger weights get
more service than queues with smaller weights. This queuing mechanism is highly efficient in that

it divides any available bandwidth across the different traffic queues. See also Queuing
Algorithms.

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
A security protocol that provides a WLAN with a level of security and privacy comparable to what

is usually expected of a wired LAN. WEP encrypts data transmitted between wired and WLANs to
keep the transmission private.

Wireless Local‐Area Network (WLAN)

WLANs use RF technology to transmit and receive data wirelessly in a certain area. This allows
users in a small zone to transmit data and share resources, such as printers, without physically

connecting each computer with cables.
Wi‐Fi Protected Access (WPA )
A subset of the IEEE 802.11i standard. WPA applies IEEE 802.1x and Extensible Authentication

Protocol (EAP) to authenticate wireless clients using an external RADIUS database. WPA encrypts

data by using Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), Message Integrity Check (MIC) and IEEE
802.1x. See also WPA‐PSK (WPA ‐Pre‐Shared Key).
Wi‐Fi MultiMedia (WMM)

Part of the IEEE 802.11e QoS enhancement to the Wi‐Fi standard that ensures quality of service

for multimedia applications in WLANs.

Wireless Client Supplicants

A wireless client supplicant is the software that runs on an operating system instructing the

wireless client how to use WPA.

WPA ‐Pre‐Shared Key (WPA‐PSK)

WPA‐PSK requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless gateway

and wireless client. As long as the passwords match, a client will be granted access to a WLAN.