3com WX4400 3CRWX440095A Manuel D’Utilisation

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Wireless configuration focuses on the configuration tasks (radio 
configuration and AAA configuration) you do to deliver the virtual 
wireless services you want to provide on your network. You enable the 
MAPs to operate according to your planned RF coverage requirements. 
Most of the wireless configuration is done as you plan your RF coverage 
and create your radio profiles and service profiles.

A radio profile is used to apply common settings to multiple radios, and 
each radio profile can support up to 32 service profiles, one for each 
service you want to support. You specify in the service profile an SSID for 
each service and the type of encryption mechanisms to be used by the 
MAP radios. This gives the radio the potential to look like 32 different and 
independent MAPs. (See Figure 5.)

Figure 5   Radio and Service Profiles 

MAP1

Radio 1

Radio 2

Radio Profile “default” applied to MAP1, Radio 1

and Radio 2 and MAP2, Radio 1

MAP2

Radio 1

Radio 2

Radio Profile “EBC” applied to MAP2, Radio 2

Service Profile, 1-32

Service Profiles 1-32

SSID 

SSID