Chapter 12 AP Profile
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12.3 SSID
The SSID screens allow you to configure three different types of profiles for your networked APs: an SSID
list, which can assign specific SSID configurations to your APs; a security list, which can assign specific
encryption methods to the APs when allowing wireless clients to connect to them; and a MAC filter list,
which can limit connections to an AP based on wireless clients MAC addresses.
12.3.1 SSID List
This screen allows you to create and manage SSID configurations that can be used by the APs. An SSID,
or Service Set IDentifier, is basically the name of the wireless network to which a wireless client can
connect. The SSID appears as readable text to any device capable of scanning for wireless frequencies
(such as the WiFi adapter in a laptop), and is displayed as the wireless network name when a person
makes a connection to it.
To access this screen click
Configuration > Object > AP Profile > SSID > SSID List
.
Note: You cannot add or remove an SSID profile after running the setup wizard.
Figure 64
Configuration > Object > AP Profile > SSID > SSID List (Default)
Transmission
Mode
Specify how the NWA1000 Series handles wireless multicast traffic.
Select
Multicast to Unicast
to broadcast wireless multicast traffic to all of the wireless clients
as unicast traffic. Unicast traffic dynamically changes the data rate based on the
application’s bandwidth requirements. The retransmit mechanism of unicast traffic
provides more reliable transmission of the multicast traffic, although it also produces
duplicate packets.
Select
Fixed Multicast Rate
to send multicast traffic to all wireless clients at a single data
rate. You must know the multicast application’s bandwidth requirements and set it in the
following field.
Multicast
Rate(Mbps)
If you set
Transmission Mode
to
Fixed Multicast Rate
, select a data rate at which the
NWA1000 Series transmits multicast packets to wireless clients. For example, to deploy 4
Mbps video, select a fixed multicast rate higher than 4 Mbps.
OK
Click
OK
to
save your changes back to the NWA1000 Series.
Cancel
Click
Cancel
to exit this screen without saving your changes.
Table 44 Configuration > Object > AP Profile > Add/Edit Profile (continued)
LABEL
DESCRIPTION