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Table 1. Key Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit

Enterprise Performance

2.4 GHz 802.11g or 802.11b

radio, configurable up to

100 mW

• High-performance 2.4 GHz WLAN solution that delivers data rates of up to 11 Mbps (IEEE 802.11b) or 54

Mbps (IEEE 802.11g) with backwards compatibility to legacy 802.11b equipment

• High-quality transmitter and receiver design provides long range and reliable coverage

Cisco IOS Software • Provides end-to-end solution support for intelligent network services

• Produces predictable and consistent network behavior

• Delivers uniform applications and services

Virtual LAN (VLAN) support • Allows segmentation of up to 16 user groups

• Increases system flexibility, accommodating clients with different security requirements and capabilities

Quality of Service (QoS) • Prioritizes traffic for different application requirements

• Improves voice and video user experience

Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) • Subset of the IEEE 802.11e QoS draft standard, supporting QoS prioritized media access via the EDCA

method

• Improves the user experience for audio, video, and voice applications over a Wi-Fi wireless connection

Support for Cisco SWAN • Comprehensive Cisco framework to integrate and extend wired and wireless networks to deliver the lowest

possible total cost of ownership for companies deploying WLANs

• Extends “wireless awareness” into important elements of the network infrastructure

• Provides the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment, and management for wireless

LANs that organizations have come to expect from their wired LANs

Wireless Domain Services

(WDS)

• Component of Cisco SWAN

• Collection of Cisco IOS Software features enhance WLAN client mobility and simplify WLAN deployment

and management

• Supports radio management aggregation, fast secure roaming, client tracking, and WAN link remote site

survivability

Fast Secure Roaming • Allows authenticated client devices to roam securely from one access point to another, within or across

subnets, without any perceptible delay during reassociation

• Supports latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP, ERP and Citrix

WAN Link Remote Site

Survivability

• Allows the access point to act as a local RADIUS server to IEEE 802.1X authenticate wireless clients when

the AAA server is not available

• Provides remote site survivability and backup authentication services during WAN link or server failure