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GO MBW Getting Started Guide
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GO MBW Getting Started Guide
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Introduction
GO Networks’ Metro Broadband Wireless (MBW) Solution. The MBW is the industry's
first broadband wireless access (BWA) system engineered from the ground up to
address the fundamental challenges of metro scale 802.11 access.
The MBW was designed to enable service providers to offer software and hardware
redundancy in large-scale, high-interference environments while providing a WiFi and
802.11 standards compliant solution using standard end-user equipment.
The GO broadband wireless access solution integrates smoothly and transparently
between client-based devices such as laptops, handsets, PDAs, CPEs, etc. and the
transport layer which sends data to the Internet and beyond. At the same time,
session-specific information is relayed to the RADIUS server to enable billing,
reporting, and statistics.
GO-MBW can be deployed in one of two ways:
• Full solution including both access points, known as WLAN Sector Base Stations
(WLS) and one or more network controllers, known as Wireless Network
Controllers (WNC).
• Standalone access points featuring the WLAN Sector Base Stations operating with
third party network controllers.
The GO Metro Broadband Wireless solution’s Getting Started Guide documents both
of these deployments, and also offers information and instructions for quickly
installing and configuring both the WLS and the WNC units. The Getting Started
Guide also includes a troubleshooting section, offering detailed instructions on a
variety of communication, authentication or connection problems that might occur.