User`s guide

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Wireless Network—Aironet’s Advanced Radio Local Area
Network (ARLAN) is designed as shown in the following
figure. This network structure shows that the Root Unit is at
the top of the wireless network, and Repeaters and radio
nodes branch down and away from the root to provide areas
of wireless network coverage.
Root Unit—An RF-based device that is at the top of a
wireless network structure. The Root Unit is the network’s
starting point and its Registration Table contains information
about other wireless network nodes associated with it.