User guide

March 2005 Understanding Canopy Networks
Through Software Release 6.1
Page 52 of 425 Issue 1
Canopy System User Guide
5.5 BANDWIDTH AND AUTHENTICATION MANAGER SOFTWARE
Canopy Bandwidth and Authentication Manager (BAM) software allows you to use
◦ a primary server to distribute bandwidth resources per subscriber, require SMs to
authenticate per AP, and deny service to unauthorized SMs.
◦ a secondary server to redundantly store identical SM bandwidth and
authentication data and become governing if the primary server goes out of
service.
◦ an optional tertiary server to do the same if both the primary and secondary
servers go out of service.
This product is supported by the dedicated document Canopy Bandwidth and
Authentication Manager User Guide and associated release notes.
5.6 LICENSE MANAGER SOFTWARE
Under the previous licensing regime for Canopy networks, licenses were permanently
tied to the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the equipment that was licensed or
that used the licensed feature. Thus, they were not transferable. Under server-based
license management, for some functionalities, Canopy offers licenses that
◦ float upon demand within the network.
◦ are tied to only the hostID (MAC address) of the license management server for
which they were ordered.
In Release 4.2.3 and later releases, server-based license management adds flexibility
and makes available licenses that previously would have been held by de-commissioned
equipment. License management technology from Macrovision, based on a FLEXnet™
Publisher license management model, provides the platform for Canopy server-based
licensing.
Canopy capabilities that are authorized by licenses on this platform are
FLEXenabled products.
In this platform, the license management server checks and then either assigns or
declines to assign a license in real time. See the Canopy Networks License Manager
User Guide.
5.7 SPECIFICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS
5.7.1 Radios
Canopy radio specifications are provided at
http://motorola.canopywireless.com/prod_specs.php.