Network Configuration - SENAO 3054 PCI Aries User Manual

Show rooms, meeting rooms, retail stores, and manufacturing sites where the workplace is
rearranged frequently.
5. Small Office and Home Office (SOHO) networks
SOHO users need a cost-effective, easy, and quick installation of a small network.
6. Wireless extensions to Ethernet networks
Network managers in dynamic environments can minimize the overhead caused by moves,
extensions to networks, and other changes with wireless LANs.
7. Wired LAN backup
Network managers implement wireless LANs to provide backup for mission-critical applications
running on wired networks.
8. Training /Educational Facilities
Training sites at corporations and students at universities use wireless connectivity to ease
access to information, information exchanges, and learning.

1-6 Network Configuration

To better understand how wireless LAN products work together to create a wireless network, it
might be helpful to depict a few of the possible wireless LAN PCI card network configurations. The
wireless LAN products can be configured as:
1. Ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) for departmental or SOHO LANs.
2. Infrastructure for enterprise LANs.
Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode
This is the simplest network configuration that several computers equipped with PCI Cards that form
a wireless network whenever they are within range of one another (Figure 1-2). In ad-hoc mode,
each client is peer-to-peer and would only have access to the resources of the other client and
requires no access point. This is the easiest and least expensive way for the SOHO to set up a
wireless network.
Wireless LAN PC Card
Peer to Peer
Wireless LAN PC Card
Wireless LAN PC Card
Wireless LAN USB Adapter