Motorola AP-51XX 사용자 설명서

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The access point (AP) provides a bridge between Ethernet wired LANs or WANs and wireless 
networks. It provides connectivity between Ethernet wired networks and radio-equipped mobile units 
(MUs). MUs include the full line of terminals, adapters (PC cards, Compact Flash cards and PCI 
adapters) and other devices.

The access point provides a maximum 54Mbps data transfer rate via each radio. It monitors Ethernet 
traffic and forwards appropriate Ethernet messages to MUs over the network. It also monitors MU 
radio traffic and forwards MU packets to the Ethernet LAN. 

If you are new to using an access point for managing your network, refer to 

 for an overview on wireless networking fundamentals. 

With this most recent 2.0 release of the access point firmware, the following new features have been 
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Legacy users can upgrade their firmware image to version 2.0. to benefit from the new features 
described in this section. For information on upgrading the access point’s firmware image, see 

An adaptive AP (AAP) is an AP-51XX access point that can adopt like an AP300 (L3). The management 
of an AAP is conducted by a switch, once the access point connects to a Motorola WS5100 or 
RFS7000 model switch and receives its AAP configuration.

An AAP provides:

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local 802.11 traffic termination 

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local encryption/decryption 

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local traffic bridging

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the tunneling of centralized traffic to the wireless switch