Unified Access Point (AP) Administrator's Guide

D-Link Unified Access Point Administrator’s Guide
Features and Benefits
This section lists the DWL-3500AP and DWL-8500AP features and benefits, which are in the
following categories:
IEEE Standards Support
Wireless Features
Security Features
Networking
Maintainability
Access Point Hardware
IEEE Standards Support
The DWL-3500AP comes configured as a single-band access point with one radio and is
capable of broadcasting in the following modes:
IEEE 802.11b mode
IEEE 802.11g mode
Dynamic Turbo 2.4 GHz
The DWL-8500AP comes configured as a dual-band access point with two radios and is
capable of broadcasting in the following modes:
IEEE 802.11b mode
IEEE 802.11g mode
IEEE 802.11a mode
Dynamic Turbo 5 GHz
Dynamic Turbo 2.4 GHz
The DWL-3500AP and DWL-8500AP access points provide bandwidth of up to 54 Mbps for
IEEE 802.11a or IEEE 802.11g, 108 Mbps for IEEE 802.11a Turbo, and 11 Mbps for IEEE
802.11b.
Wireless Features
The following list describes some of the DWL-3500AP and DWL-8500AP wireless features:
Auto channel selection at startup
Transmit power adjustment
Quality of Service (QoS) for enhanced throughput and better performance of timesensitive
wireless traffic like Video, Audio, Voice over IP (VoIP) and streaming media
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) compliance for QoS
Load Balancing
Built-in support for multiple SSIDs (network names) and multiple BSSIDs (basic service
set IDs) on the same access point
Channel management for automatic coordination of radio channel assignments to reduce
AP-to-AP interference on the network and maximize Wi-Fi bandwidth
Neighboring access point detection (also known as “rogue” AP detection)
Support for IEEE 802.11d Regulatory Domain selection (country codes for global operation)
Support for IEEE 802.11h, incorporating TPC and DFS
Support for Super AG technology, which can increase WLAN speed and throughput
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