User Manual

Your Summit WLAN radio, or WLAN client adapter, enables a computing device to communicate to a computing
network using all of the IEEE 802.11 protocols listed above for that radio.
This manual is a user’s guide for a Summit radio that is installed on a computing device that is running one of the
following operating systems:
Windows CE 4.2, 5.0, or 6.0
Windows Mobile 2003, 5.0, 6, or 6.1
The hardware components and software for all Summit radios are the same. A 20G version is a 10G version with
integrated antennas. (In fact, if you look at the back of a CF20G, you'll see a label for the CF10G.) A PCMCIA
version is a CF version in a specially designed CF-to-PCMCIA carrier. The miniature CF version is essentially the
CF version with a different layout and a different (Molex) connector.
The software that Summit provides for its radios includes:
A device driver for the operating system running on the computing device that uses the radio
An integrated IEEE 802.1X supplicant that supports the highest level of standards-based WLAN security
with a broad range of options
The Summit Client Utility (SCU), a configuration, monitoring, and management application designed for
Summit radios
A service that displays in the Windows System Tray an icon that provides a visual status for the Summit
radio and enables the user to launch SCU by tapping the icon
Your Summit radio is Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® and, with V2.0 of Summit software, certified for Version 4 of Cisco
Compatible Extensions (CCX):
Wi-Fi: The Wi-Fi Alliance certifies that Summit radios support the specified IEEE 802.11 protocols with
support for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and WPA2, both Personal and Enterprise. The Extensible
Authentication Protocol (EAP) type tested by the Wi-Fi Alliance was PEAP-MSCHAPv2. For details, visit
the Wi-Fi Alliance Web site at http://www.wi-fi.com, click on the “Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® Products” link,
and search for Summit Data Communications.
CCX: Summit radios are certified to Version 4 of the CCX specification for application-specific devices
(ASDs). For an overview of CCX, go to
http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/pr46/pr147/partners_pgm_concept_home.html. For details on the
features in CCX V4 for ASDs, go to
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/765/ccx/versions_and_features.shtml.
1.1 Product Overview
For an overview of Summit WLAN radios, go to http://www.summitdatacom.com/product.htm.
1.2 Security Capabilities
Summit radios typically are used in business-critical mobile devices that transmit sensitive information, such as
inventory data and patient information, over the air that separates the mobile devices from the network. To protect
transmitted data as well as the mobile devices and network infrastructure that transmit and receive the data, an
organization’s IT department often imposes on mobile devices the same strict security standards imposed on other
client devices. Summit’s integrated approach to security simplifies the task of enforcing a consistent security
policy on all devices.
A foundational element of the IEEE 802.11i WLAN security standard is IEEE 802.1X, and a critical application
on a mobile device is an 802.1X supplicant. Such a supplicant provides an interface between the radio and the
operating system and supports the authentication and encryption elements required for 802.11i, also known as