User guide

Release 9.4.2 Release Notes
Issue 1, May 2009 Page 10
2 Features and Enhancements
The following sections list features and enhancements for Release 9.4.2.
2.1 RELEASE 9.4.2 ENHANCEMENTS
Release 9.4.2 adds the enhancements listed in Table 2.
Table 2: Release 9.4.2 enhancements
Product Family
Enhancement
Summary
PMP 100
PTP 100
None
—
PTP 49200
Support for PTP
49200
With Release 9.4.2, 4.9-GHz OFDM radios are now
offered as BHs, as well as APs and SMs.
PMP 49400
Change to existing
feature: per-SM query
replaces Link Status
table
On sectors with large numbers of SMs, rapid refresh of the
Link Status table on the AP’s Tools => Link Status page
could potentially cause performance issues on the sector.
To avoid this, the table has been replaced with the ability
to query each SM for all bidirectional link data, but not
display a table.
PMP 54400
PTP 54200
Support for features
and enhancements
since previous
release
5.4-GHz OFDM radios now support the general features
and enhancements listed in
◦ Release 9.0 Release Notes
◦ Release 9.3 Release Notes
◦ Release 9.4 Release Notes
Please refer to those release notes for details.
2.2 PERFORMANCE – PACKETS PER SECOND
Packet per Second (PPS) performance for Release 9.4.2 is the same as for recent releases.
Benchmark values are shown in Table 3.
Table 3: Packet per Second (pps) performance
Hardware series
Product
P11 or P10
P9
PMP 5x100 and PMP 24100
6200
3500
PMP 5x100 and PMP 24100 with
VLAN
5200
3200
PMP 09100 (900 MHz)
4600
3600
PTP 5x100 and PTP 24100
6200
3200
1
PMP 54400
6800
—
PTP 54200
4800
—
PMP 49400
6300
—
PMP 49400 with VLAN
5300
—