Introduction
This document is to provide an overview of the variety of ways in which D-Link’s wireless
solution can be deployed by customers. It would also point out a few pointers to be kept
in mind either as limitations or cautions to be taken while deploying the solution in a
customer environment.
There are 3 unique features that D-Link’s solution has which can be taken advantage of
while proposing our solution in competition to other vendors based on the unique needs
a customer’s network may have.
1. Our solution can be deployed either as an Overlay Device (also called a Wireless
Controller) or as an Edge Device that can leverage all the traditional wired
functionality built into our switch.
2. Support for Peer Switches – Up to 4 Peer Switches can be supported in the
same Wireless Domain with each of the Switches capable of managing 48
Access Points effectively enabling the network scale to a maximum of 192 APs.
This Unified Access System can manage up to 2000 wireless clients
simultaneously making it suitable for large-scale deployments.
3. When the Access Points are in different IP subnets, the clients can still roam
seamlessly across the access points with a feature called L3 Fast Roaming. This
feature is mainly intended for Wireless VoIP communication using wi-fi phones
and other such devices which require the clients to maintain their IP addresses
even as they roam within the wireless domain. This is accomplished by the
Tunneled Data Forwarding
mode that is supported by the solution.
