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Using VLANs:

• Limits broadcast and multicast traffic

• Increases security by limiting communication between groups

• Allocates network resources, such as servers, to specific groups

Map WLANs on a one-to-one basis, configuring switch policies such as:

• Ethernet Policy mapping one WLAN to a VLAN

• Access Port Policy mapping one or more WLANs to a BSSID

• Security Policy mapping one security policy to a WLAN policy.

1.4 New Features

This section describes the key enhancements in the WS5000 Series Switch:

Dual DHCP Server

SNMP Trap on Config Change

AP to AP Beacons

DTIM per BSS

WIPS Support

CPU Temperature Monitoring in WS5000

Active Primary Revert

Access Port Ping

Upgrade/Downgrade Process

WME is quality of service implementation based on the subset of the IEEE 802.11e draft specification. WME

support will enable the wireless infrastructure network based on WS5000 to handle the multimedia traffic

with Quality of Service (QoS). WS5000 will be able to provide the enhanced service for WME capable stations

associated on access-Port that has the WME capability.

To learn more about WME refer to

1.4.2 RF Statistics

The switch shall support approximately 24 new MIB tables, giving various details of the RF statistics. The

purpose of these new (enhanced) statistics is to provide better RF monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities

to network administrators.

QoS via Wi-Fi Multimedia Extension (WME) on page

WS5000 Series Switch Overview