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1 Introduction
The
EAP600
is a high-powered, long-range dual-band concurrent wireless 802.11a/b/g/n access point with four major
functional modes. The EAP600 is designed to operate in numerous environments from large homes, small and medium-
sized businesses, multiple-floor offices, hotels and other venues to larger enterprise deployments. Its high-powered, long-
range characteristics make it a cost-effective alternative to ordinary access points that don’t have the range and reach to
connect to a growing number of wireless users who wish to connect to a large home or business network.
The EAP600 supports the 2.4GHz frequency band under 802.11 b/g/n mode while at the same time providing 5GHz band
for communicating or transferring files in a less congested network frequency band.
The EAP600 delivers up to 6x faster wireless speeds and 7x extended coverage than legacy 802.11a/b/g wireless devices.
Even though the EAP600 has been designed and engineered for traffic heavy and demanding business environments it is
also quite at home in larger house scenarios because it efficiently extends the wireless range of an existing home router,
especially in very architecturally-challenging structures to provide whole home connectivity.
To protect sensitive data during wireless transmissions, the EAP600 offers different encryption settings for wireless
transmissions including industry-standard WPA and WPA2 encryption. The EAP600 also includes MAC address filtering to
allow network administrators to offer network access only to known computers and other devices based on their MAC
addresses.