User`s guide

This option allows you to change the various wireless parameters for the BSA radio.

Radio Port Administrative Status is used for SNMP. It corresponds to the SNMP MIB-

II Administrative status parameter and can be used to bring the BSA radio interface back up

after it has been disabled by an SNMP manager. It can also be used to put the radio into a

mode in which it no longer transmits or receives packets.

In order to establish communications, all communicating radios must be configured with the

same Domain number. Radios on different Domains cannot communicate with each other.

The Domain is a software filter which does not affect the actual radio frequency or the

frequency hop sequence.

In order for the wireless clients to roam between Extension Points and 7510/752x/753x

Access Points, all radios must be configured to the same Domain.

Each Master can select one of 15 Channels to establish communications with Stations.

Each Channel number sets a unique frequency hopping sequence allowing for multiple subnet-

works with higher data rate transmission capability in the same air space. You may think of

the Channel as a pipe. In order to communicate, there must be one (and only one) Master

that provides the timing for that Channel.

There are 15 independent Channels. This means that there are 15 different sequences of

frequency hops. Each Channel is at a different frequency at a different time. For networks

with multiple Masters (such as in a roaming environment), set each Master to a different

channel. All Stations will determine their channel by the Master to which they are synchro-

nized.

The Subchannel is a software code that is appended to each radio packet. It does not

affect the frequency hopping sequence like a Channel does. Use a Subchannel if you need

more than 15 Masters in the same coverage area and, therefore, all the Channels are used.

For example, you can use Channel 1, Subchannel 1 for Network A and Channel 1,

Subchannel 2 for Network B. The two networks will not communicate with one another.

They are, however, still sharing the 1.6 Mbps pipe since they are both using Channel 1.