The DWL-2700AP wireless G outdoor access point  is an outdoor device with dual high Gain antennas that covers a large operating distance. This device is ideal for Internet Service Providers to create hot spot networks to provide outdoor users with wireless  Internet access.  It can also be  installed at manufacturing plants,  industrial  locations, convention halls, school campuses, airports, golf courses,
marinas and other outdoor venues.

Powerful & Durable Outdoor Solution
The DWL-2700AP  is  designed  to  handle  a wide  variety of  outdoor  environments.  It  has  a  die-cast  watertight housing,  a  built-in  heater  and  a  temperature  sensor. Supporting Power  over  Ethernet  (PoE),  it  can  be  placed at outdoor  locations where power outlets are not easily accessible. Besides functioning as an AP, this device can be can be confgured to operate as a Wireless  Distribution System (WDS) to act as a bridge linking together networks in different buildings.

Advanced Network Security
The  DWL-2700AP  supports  64/128/152-bit  WEP  data encryption and WPA/WPA2 security functions. In addition, it provides MAC Address Filtering to control user access, and the Disable SSID Broadcast function to limit outsiders’ access to the internal network.

Network Flexibility and Effciency
The  DWL-2700AP  supports  up  to  8  SSID,  allowing  the administrators  to  logically  divide  the  access  point  into several virtual access points all within a single hardware platform. Rather than having two separate networks with two access points, administrators can deploy one single AP  to support more  than one application, such as public Internet access and  internal network control  to  increase fexibility and keep costs down. The DWL-2700AP supports 802.1Q  VLAN  Tagging,  operating  with  multiple  SSID  to segment traffc to enhance performance and security.

The  DWL-2700AP  provides  WLAN  STA  partitioning, a  function  useful  for  deployments  like  at  hot  spots. With  station-to-station  partitioning  enabled,  security  is enhanced,  since  wireless  users  cannot  peek  at  each other,  and  the  possibility  for  data  thievery  is  reduced. Administrators  can,  however,  disable  this  function,  so wireless  users  at  an  offce  can  share  hard  disks  and 
information,  and  peripherals  such  as  wireless  printers. The  DWL-2700AP  also  supports  AP  grouping,  allowing several access points to balance wireless network traffc and wireless  clients  among  the AP with  the  same SSID and different non-overlapping frequency channels.

Network Management
Network  administrators  can  manage  DWL-2700AP’s settings  via  web-based  confguration  or  Telnet. Administrators can use a Windows-based utility called AP Manager  to  automatically  discover  all wireless  devices installed  on  the  network  and  do  bulk  confguration  of multiple AP to save time and effort.