Specifications
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support up to four Supervisor-III modules for a total of 2,048 APs. If the system needs to grow larger
than this multiple controllers can be teamed to work together as a master-local grouping. In this case
many controllers may work together as a cohesive system with a single point of management.
Deployments of over 1,000 APs will at times use a dedicated master controller which will support no
AP connections but be dedicated to system management.
Load balancing
Access Point load balancing is available to intelligently allow the system to balance wireless traffic
across adjacent APs. Load balancing can be triggered based on the number of users or degree of
utilization on an AP. When traffic reaches the configured thresholds on an AP where load balancing is
allowed, any new wireless client station attempting to associate with the saturated AP will be directed
to an adjacent AP instead. Stations which are already associated with the AP are not affected.
For Alcatel-Lucent Access Points, load balancing is implemented by station management on the
OmniAccess WLAN controller and is entirely standards based. This avoids any client driver changes to
be made and allows the solution to operate transparently to end users. Bandwidth contracts can be
used to constrain the bandwidth per user to help maintain acceptable network performance.
Bandwidth is specified using a kbits|mbits parameter. The contract can be implemented so that all
the users within the assigned role on a given AP share the bandwidth or per-user where each user in
the role receives the entire bandwidth specified by the bandwidth contract.
Load-balancing is used to enhance the OmniAccess Wireless Call Admission Control (CAC) function by
limiting the number of voice calls per AP. CAC statefully follows voice signaling protocols allowing it to
count the number of active calls per AP and trigger load-balancing.
3.3.5.1.2 Alcatel-Lucent VoWLAN product lines
The OmniAccess wireless product family is based on a centralized architecture with light access
points, and embedded security.
One of the key challenges of mobility is security. The OmniAccess wireless product family embeds
identity based security, WLAN intrusion prevention, endpoint integrity and content inspection
services.
Alcatel-Lucent VoWLAN products offer:
A line of OmniAccess WLAN switches, namely:
OAW-4306G
Used to support:
Up to 16 AP
Up to 64 RAP
Up to 512 users
Equipped with two 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet ports, four
10/100/1000 POE+ Gigabit Ethernet ports, two Gigabit SFP
ports, four USB ports and one ExpressCard slot for flexible
LAN applications. Embedded Stateful Inspection firewall
options.
OAW-4306G
OAW-4504XM, 4604 & 4704
Equipped with dual personality ports :
- four 10/100/1000BASE-T (RJ-45) or four 1000BASE-X (SFP)