Chapter 4. Application Notes; Point-To-Point Installation - Vivotek M500AG User Manual

Chapter 4. Application Notes

4.1. Point-to-Point Installation

One of the main applications for 500AG serial is to connect two points wirelessly to save the cable
cost or overcome certain geographical difficulty to have wire between two points. The figure
illustrates a typical point-to-point connection of two buildings a distance apart. The outdoor APs can
act as bridges to connect two points in the same net scope, or act as routers to join two different
subnets together. Semi-directional or directional antennas are normally used for this application to
have a focus beam for distant signal transmission. The following sections detail both bridge mode
and router mode settings of the APs for this point to point application.