The Solution: The Wireless Switch System - Symbol WS5100 Reviewer's Manual

Symbol WS 5100 Wireless Switch Reviewer's Guide
Collateral Cost. This includes mobile device battery life, data
corruption through inadequate WLAN security, productivity loss due
to lack of connection persistence and low quality of service, and so
on.
Migration Cost. The signal strength and power of an Access Point is
limited by its embedded radio. A migration path to future power-
hungry technologies could require chassis expansion and expensive
hardware upgrades.
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The Solution: The Wireless Switch System

A WLAN that is based on Access Points challenges an organization with its
inherent limitations and high cost. To address the concerns described above,
Symbol introduced the Wireless Switch System. This new architecture is
based on a "Central Intelligence" infrastructure that comprises two hardware
components: the Wireless Switch and one or more Access Ports. The
Wireless Switch acts as the packet-switching brain for the WLAN, while
Access Ports serve as "dumb", inexpensive antennas.
Symbol's WS5000, the first in the Wireless Switch family, uses the "overlay"
model in which Symbol Access Ports connect to the Wireless Switch through
an existing and trusted Ethernet Switching fabric. The WS5100, the newest
member of the WS5000 Series family, is a Wireless Switch with added
Ethernet switching capabilities for medium-to-large enterprises.
Figure 1 Wireless Switch System
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