Specifications

Summit WM Getting Started Guide, Software Version 5.1 3
Table of Contents
About this guide .............................................................................................................................. 7
Who should use this guide ...........................................................................................................7
What is in this guide ...................................................................................................................7
Formatting conventions................................................................................................................8
Document feedback ....................................................................................................................8
Chapter 1: Summit WM Controller, Access Points, and Software Solution........................................... 9
Conceptual model .......................................................................................................................9
Summit WM Controller ..........................................................................................................9
Web-based centralized management of Wireless APs ..........................................................9
Virtualized user segmentation ...........................................................................................9
Authentication and encryption ........................................................................................10
Intrusion detection ........................................................................................................10
Automatic assignment of IP addresses to the client devices...............................................10
Web authentication .......................................................................................................10
Wireless AP ........................................................................................................................11
Altitude AP ...................................................................................................................11
Outdoor AP...................................................................................................................11
Altitude 802.11n AP .....................................................................................................12
WDS ............................................................................................................................12
Summit WM Controller, Access Points, and Software Solution topology and network elements ....13
Discovery mechanism in Summit WM Controller, Access Points, and Software Solution..............14
Discovery mechanism between Wireless AP and Summit WM Controller..............................14
Discovery mechanism between mobility manager and mobility agents.................................14
DHCP in Summit WM Controller, Access Points, and Software Solution ....................................14
DHCP for Wireless APs ..................................................................................................15
DHCP for WM-AD ..........................................................................................................16
DHCP relay for WM-AD ..................................................................................................17
DHCP for traffic bridged locally at Wireless AP.................................................................18
Summit WM Controller’s physical description...............................................................................18
Summit WM200/2000 Controller front panel .........................................................................19
Summit WM200/2000 Controller data port cabling specification .......................................19
Summit WM200/2000 Controller LEDs ...........................................................................20
Summit WM200/2000 Controller’s LED states and Seven Segment Display (SSD) codes......20
Summit WM200/2000 Controller back panel .........................................................................22
Summit WM20 Controller front panel ....................................................................................23
Summit WM20 Controller data port cabling specification ..................................................23
Summit WM20 Controller’s LEDs....................................................................................24
Summit WM20 Controller’s LED states............................................................................24
Summit WM20 Controller back panel ....................................................................................25
Summit WM1000 Controller front panel ................................................................................25
Summit WM1000 Controller back panel ................................................................................26
Summit WM1000 Controller data port cabling specification ..............................................26
Summit WM1000 Controller LEDs ..................................................................................27
Summit WM100 Controller front panel ..................................................................................27
Summit WM100 Controller back panel ..................................................................................28