Specifications

Altitude 3500 Series Access Point Product Reference Guide

To enable and configure WLANs on an access point radio, see “Enabling Wireless LANs (WLANs)” on

page 133.

Support for 4 BSSIDs per Radio

The access point supports four BSSIDs per radio. Each BSSID has a corresponding MAC address. The

first MAC address corresponds to BSSID #1. The MAC addresses for the other three BSSIDs (BSSIDs #2,

#3, #4) are derived by adding 1, 2, 3, respectively, to the radio MAC address.

If the radio MAC address displayed on the Radio Settings screen is 00:A0:F8:72:20:DC, then the BSSIDs

for that radio will have the following MAC addresses:

For detailed information on strategically mapping BSSIDs to WLANs, see “Configuring the 802.11a or

802.11b/g Radio” on page 154. For information on access point MAC address assignments, see

“Altitude 35xx MAC Address Assignment” on page 33.

Quality of Service (QoS) Support

The Altitude 35xx QoS implementation provides applications running on different wireless devices a

variety of priority levels to transmit data to and from the access point. Equal data transmission priority

is fine for data traffic from applications such as Web browsers, file transfers or email, but is inadequate

for multimedia applications.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), video streaming and interactive gaming are highly sensitive to latency

increases and throughput reductions. These forms of higher priority data traffic can significantly benefit

from the Altitude 35xx QoS implementation. The WiFi Multimedia QOS Extensions (WMM)

implementation used by the access point shortens the time between transmitting higher priority data

traffic and is thus desirable for multimedia applications. In addition, U-APSD (WMM Power Save) is

also supported.

WMM defines four access categories—voice, video, best effort and background—to prioritize traffic for

enhanced multimedia support.

For detailed information on configuring QoS support for Altitude 35xx, see “Setting the WLAN Quality

of Service (QoS) Policy” on page 142.

Industry Leading Data Security

The Altitude 35xx access point supports numerous encryption and authentication techniques to protect

the data transmitting on the WLAN.

The following authentication techniques are supported:

● Kerberos Authentication on page 20

BSSID MAC Address Hexadecimal Addition

BSSID #1 00:A0:F8:72:20:DC Same as Radio MAC address

BSSID #2 00:A0:F8:72:20:DD Radio MAC address +1

BSSID #3 00:A0:F8:72:20:DE Radio MAC address +2

BSSID #4 00:A0:F8:72:20:DF Radio MAC address +3