High Reliability Access Point mode, with Standby Redundancy airPoint XO2 is built to reinforce service reliability in outdoor wireless networks so as to enhance user satisfaction. WISPs can configure one of the radios to access point mode to provide broadband coverage to a designated area. The second radio can be configured as a hot standby for this access point.
Enhanced network reliability and uptime
Built in redundancy in the network
Bandwidth Management for increased ROI The airPoint XO2 provides bandwidth throttling of upload/download streams. The bandwidth control can be done using static tables or dynamically by RADIUS, along with authentication. The Wireless ISP can profile subscribers based on speed limits and identify bandwidth usage patterns. This opens up customer segmentation possibilities, leading to revenue maximization.
The airPoint XO2 provides traffic statistics. This helps the WISP to observe the behavior of network devices, traffic load fluctuations and other events, making it much easier to troubleshoot any problems, which might occur. The information available helps the WISP to optimize bandwidth utilization. WISPs can now easily provide services to more subscribers.
Easy Scalability & Roaming By distributing the bandwidth management function from the centralized NOC out to individual airPoint XO2 access points, it is now possible to design scalable wide area networks. Bandwidth traffic policies can be set remotely from a central NOC. This avoids the need for backhauling all the data traffic to a single place, thus averting a choke point. All access points in the network controlled by one NOC not only brings convenience to network management but also enables mobile users to avail easy roaming facility Roaming users can cross over seamlessly from one cell to another within the same WISP network, without the need for authentication at every cross-over.
Remote Management, Upgrades and Control airPoint XO2 has built-in features to make device management both convenient and secure. It can provide access control lists and filters for SNMP traffic, as well as IP filtering. The airPoint XO2 supports remote setting of radio parameters, firmware upgrade and restore defaults through SNMP. Further, the WISP can also monitor the temperature of the unit through the thermal sensing facility, which is policy based. The product supports SNMP based remote monitoring and management through simple NMS and simpleMonitor and has an embedded SNMP MIB.
Long Range Radio Performance and Flexible Antenna Options airPoint XO2 features LongRange wireless radio that delivers high data throughput over long operating range. With a suitable antenna airPoint XO2's range easily extends to 34 kilometers (21 Miles). The airPoint XO2 has been FCC certified with many antenna configurations normally used by WISPs and outdoor wireless installers. Software controlled "Dial-a-Power" lets the installer control radio power output. Together, these features provide the much-needed flexibility to choose the right antenna with the pattern and gain characteristics conforming to local regulatory limits as well as coverage area requirements. The airPoint XO2 supports 128 clients per radio.
Reinforced Processing Capability for higher network loads airPoint XO2, with more raw processing power, surpasses other available devices allowing it to take on bigger network loads. The two radios with their individual slave processors coupled with the master processor of the unit can support enormous network loads. This makes the network robust enough to withstand load spikes thereby ensuring infrastructure reliability.
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