User's Manual

EnRoute500 User’s Guide
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1 Working with the EnRoute500
Thank you for choosing the Tranzeo EnRoute500 Wireless Mesh Router. The EnRoute500
allows a wireless mesh network to be rapidly deployed with little configuration required by the
end user. This user’s guide presents a wide array of configuration options, but only a limited
number of options have to be configured in order to deploy a mesh network of EnRoute500s.
1.1 EnRoute500 Capabilities
The EnRoute500 is capable of automatically forming a mesh network that allows devices that
are connected to it, either with a wired or a wireless connection, to communicate with each
other and external networks that are accessed through gateway nodes. The EnRoute500 has
two radios, an 802.11a mesh backhaul radio and an access point radio for 802.11b/g-client
devices. An EnRoute500 will currently support up to four virtual access points (APs), each with
different access and performance settings. It is also possible to connect devices to an
EnRoute500 using an Ethernet connection.
Figure 1. EnRoute500 sample network – devices attach to
the EnRoute500 through both wired and wireless connections