AW5300 Wireless Access Point
Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. Product Overview
The AW5300 Wireless Access Point is one of our wireless product lines to provide a wireless connectivity
to wireless clients or mobile stations to create a complete mobile and wireless network for your industrial
wireless networking. For example, you can connect serial devices to our product SW5001 Wireless Serial
Server and connect the SW5001 to AW5300 Wireless Access Point device. This setting can connect serial
devices to a local area network or a backbone network as shown in Figure 1-1. The AW5300 Wireless
Access Point provides several functionalities to support the mobile and wireless networking.
AW5300 supports five operation modes:
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Regular
AP
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Regular
AP
Gateway
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Wireless
Bridge
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Wireless
WDS
Hybrid
AP
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Wireless WDS Hybrid AP Gateway
Figure 1-1 Sample of Network Topology for Wireless Connection
1.2. Special Features
The AW5300 Wireless Access Point has several special features that will help network operators or IT
specialists to improve wireless network performance and to increase business productivity. The special
features are described as follow.
1.2.1. Fast Handoff
The AW5300 employs an advanced algorithm for fast roaming for mobile stations that roam across
several coverage networks or cells very often. It is suitable for warehouse management where forklifts or
