User's Manual

EWS-150g Configuration Guide 1
EWS-150g Configuration Guide
An Introduction to the EWS-150g
Overview
The EWS-150g Edge Wireless System is a CPE device specifically targeted at metropolitan WISPs who are
offering low-cost residential wireless service to their customers. When deploying a metropolitan Wi-Fi
solution, in many cases the signal is not sufficiently strong enough to penetrate residential buildings and
establish a reliable connection with low-end consumer wireless network interfaces. The EWS-150g
overcomes this problem by providing a higher transmit power with high gain antennas, ensuring that your
wireless customers stay connected. The EWS-150g also offers a suite of management features—including a
powerful Web Management Interface (WMI) and SNMP—that have been tailored for residential users,
including the ability to upgrade the EWS-150g firmware remotely, performance monitoring, and usage history
logs.
Bridging the Network
The EWS-150g bridges connectivity between a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN), consisting of multiple
Strix Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) nodes formed as a structured mesh, an indoor wired Local Area
Network (LAN), and/or an indoor Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). This bridging function is provided
with Layer 2 Network Address Translation (NAT) so that multiple computers can be supported by a single
association between the OWS and the EWS-150g, while still receiving IP address assignments from the WISP
gateway via DHCP. Figure 1 shows a generalized application for the EWS-150g.
Figure 1. Bridging the Network