Cisco Cisco WAP2000 Wireless-G Access Point - PoE Manual De Mantenimiento

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Cisco WAP2000 Wireless-G Access Point with Power Over Ethernet Administration Guide

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Before deploying your WAP2000 Wireless-G Access Point with Power Over 
Ethernet, take some time to plan your wireless network.

This chapter includes the following topics:

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A wireless network is a group of computers, each equipped with one or more 
wireless adapters. Computers in a wireless network must be configured to share 
the same radio channel to talk to each other. Several computers equipped with 
wireless cards or adapters can communicate with each other to form an ad-hoc 
network without the use of an access point.

Cisco wireless adapters also provide access to a wired network when using an 
access point or wireless router. An integrated wireless and wired network is 
called an infrastructure network. Each wireless computer in an infrastructure 
network can talk to any computer in a wired or wireless network via the access 
point or wireless router.

An infrastructure configuration extends the accessibility of a wireless computer to 
a wired network, and may double the effective wireless transmission range for 
two wireless adapter computers. 

Because an access point can forward data within a network, the effective 
transmission range in an infrastructure network may be doubled (depending on 
antenna characteristics).