Rs4000 Hardware Features And Specifications; Figure 5 Radio Switch Rs4000 - Meru Networks AP320 Installation Manual

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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 5: Radio Switch RS4000

RS4000 Hardware Features and Specifications

The RS4000 has four 802.11 radios (two 802.11a and two 802.11bg) that transmit and
receive simultaneously on four different channels to increase the total available
wireless bandwidth at a given area. The RS4000 connects to the LAN using one 10/100
Mbps Ethernet connection for each radio pair. The RS4000 is powered using two IEEE
802.3af POE connections, each with 15W power.
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