Breaking the bottleneck of the last kilometer talking about the three advantages of wireless Switches

With the increasing popularity of wireless networks, more and more institutions and enterprises are beginning to implement wireless LAN. Up to now, wireless LAN is generally composed of clients connected to the access point, and the Access Point must provide security, management, and other intelligence required to control the wireless part of the network.

The problem is that managing multiple access points is an insurmountable situation for networks that may involve hundreds or thousands of access points. In this case, a new product-WLAN switch emerged.

Many network companies that have studied Ethernet and switch technologies are investing heavily in research and development of wireless switches. Wireless exchange not only improves the manageability, security, and deployment capabilities of wireless networks, but also reduces network costs. This has become a new trend in the wireless LAN field.

The traditional enterprise-level wireless LAN adopts the two-level Ethernet switch + enterprise-level AP mode, which enables bridging between the wireless LAN and the wired network. The wireless part of the entire network is composed of an AP-centered coverage area. These regions work independently. As the central node of the region, the AP undertakes data receiving, forwarding, filtering, and encryption, and client access, disconnection, and authentication tasks. All management work, such as channel management and security settings, must be performed separately for each AP. When the enterprise's wireless LAN is large, it becomes a heavy burden on network administrators.

The new wireless switch solves this problem through centralized management and simplified AP. In this architecture, the wireless Switch replaces the location of the original L2 Switch, And the lightweight AP (Light-Weight AP) (also called smart Antenna Intelligent Antenna) replaces the original enterprise-level AP. In this way, security, mobility, QoS, and other features can be centrally managed throughout the enterprise.