Lancom Systems LCOS 3.50 User Manual

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Chapter 11: Wireless LAN – WLAN

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By the use of narrow beam antennas (e.g. AirLancer Extender), also larger dis-
tances can be bridged securely. An additional increase of reach can be
achieved by use of further base stations, which operate in relay mode between
two LAN segments.

Point-to-multipoint
operation

It is possible to couple up to seven remote network segments to an united net-
work by wireless bridges in the so-called P2MP operation (point-to-
multipoint) mode.

Point-to-station
operation

The so-called P2Station operation (point-to-station) connects a single station
is to a remote LAN.

Base station in client mode

For binding single devices with Ethernet interfaces to a Wireless LAN,
LANCOM Wireless base stations can be put into the so-called client mode, in
which they behave like a conventional Wireless LAN adapter and not like a

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