Figure 1 Radio Switch Rs4000 - Meru Networks AP150 Installation Manual

easy— as with wireless access points, the Radio Switch can be installed wherever
wireless coverage is needed. For large buildings with multiple rooms and floors, more
than one Radio Switch can be installed to cover the desired area. Wireless users can
seamlessly roam from one Radio Switch to another, getting high-capacity WLAN
access throughout the wireless enterprise enabled with multiple Radio Switches. The
RS4000 also balances radio traffic across its RF channels and resolves contention
within each RF channel such that users receive a switched wireless experience with
dedicated bandwidth to execute a variety of applications ranging from web browsing
and VoIP mobility to multimedia streaming.
The RS4000 ships with either a high-gain omni-directional indoor antenna or a 180-
degree directional indoor antenna that aggregates and layers radio transmissions
from each of the built-in radios. The antenna can broadcast every channel available
to blanket the area around the Radio Switch, yet avoid interference and contention.
This simplifies deployment efforts by eliminating the need for additional antennas
for each radio. More importantly, RF channel planning efforts are greatly simplified.
Using the RS4000, wireless users experience the benefits of switching technology on
Wi-Fi—dedicated bandwidth, traffic separation, and multi-service network support.
The RS4000 can be deployed with up to two 802.11b/g and two 802.11a channels
active on the radio interfaces. The 802.11b/g channels must be separated by a
minimum of 8 channels (for example, channels 1 and 9), so the recommended set is
channels 1 and 11, typically. The 802.11a channels must be separated by a minimum
of 80MHz/16 channels for best performance (for example, channels 36 and 52).
Figure 1: Radio Switch RS4000
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