Table Of Contents
Preface
Document Purpose
The purpose of this document is to describe the design and implementation of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network for the enterprise.
Intended Audience
This publication is for experienced network administrators who are responsible for design and implementation of wireless networks.
Document Organization
The following table lists and briefly describes the chapters of this guide.
Chapter 1, "Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution Overview."
Summarizes the benefits and characteristics of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network for the enterprise.
Chapter 2, "Cisco Unified Wireless Technology and Architecture."
Discusses the key design and operational considerations in an enterprise Cisco Unified Wireless Deployment.
Describes the basic radio frequency (RF) information necessary to understand RF considerations in various wireless local area network (WLAN) environments.
Describes the natively available 802.11 security options and the advanced security features in the Cisco Unified Wireless solution, and how these can be combined to create an optimal WLAN solution.
Describes quality of service (QoS) in the context of WLAN implementations.
Describes the improvements that have been made in IP multicast forwarding and provides information on how to deploy multicast in a wireless environment.
Describes the Cisco Centralized WLAN architecture and its use of H-REAP.
Describes the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) and addresses management considerations to consider when using it to design, deploy, and manage your enterprise wireless LAN.
Discusses the integration of wired network security into the Cisco Unified Wireless Solution.
Describes the use of wireless mesh.
Provide design considerations when deploying voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) solutions.
Describes the use of guest access services in the centralized WLAN architecture.
Chapter 13, "Mobile Access Router, Universal Bridge Client, and Cisco Unified Wireless."
Describes the use of the mobile access router, universal bridge client, and mesh networks.
Describes the inter-workings of the Cisco Mobile Client (CMC) over a Cisco Unified Wireless Network (WiSM).
Chapter 15, "Cisco Unified Wireless Location-Based Services."
Discusses the Cisco Location-Based Service (LBS) solution and the areas that merit special consideration involving design, configuration, installation, and deployment.