User's Manual

Menus and Parameters
Manual Revision 1.0
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Air Interface Parameters
The Air Interface Parameters menu enables viewing the current Air
Interface parameters defined for the unit and configuring new values for
each of the relevant parameters.
ESSID Parameters
The ESSID (Extended Service Set ID) is a string used to identify a
wireless network and to prevent the unintentional merging of two
wireless network or two sectors in the same network. Typically, a
different ESSID is defined for each BU. To facilitate easy addition of an
RB to an existing network without a prior knowledge of which specific
BU will serve it, and to support the Best BU feature, a secondary
"global" ESSID, namely "Operator ESSID", can be configured in the BU.
If the Operator ESSID Option is enabled at the BU, the Beacon frames
transmitted by it will include both the ESSID and Operator ESSID. The
RB shall regard such frames if either the ESSID or the Operator ESSID
matches it own ESSID. The ESSID of the BU with which the RB is
eventually associated is defined as the Run-Time ESSID of the RB.
Typically, the initial ESSID of the RB is configured to the value of the
Operator ESSID. Once the RB has become associated with a specific
BU, its ESSID can be reconfigured to the value of the ESSID of the BU.
ESSID
The ESSID parameter defines the ESSID of the unit.
Valid values: A string of up to 31 printable ASCII characters.
The default value is ESSID1.
NOTE
The ESSID string is case sensitive.