General product questions
What are the advantages of the Extricom WLAN System?
Do you support the IEEE 802.11 standards?
Can the Extricom system operate alongside my existing WLAN equipment?
Can I use any Wi-Fi client on the Extricom WLAN?
Can your system support demanding real-time applications such as voice, video conferencing, and CRM?
What is a 'Channel Blanket'?
What do you mean by "multi-layer WLAN"?
Can the Extricom system be used in any country?
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What are the advantages of the Extricom WLAN System?
The Extricom WLAN System was conceived for a new era in wireless adoption and value; one in which organizations expect to make Wi-Fi pervasive in their operation, enabling all users, applications, and devices to benefit from wireless. In contrast to the traditional "cell-based" WLANs of today, the Extricom solution provides for superior and guaranteed performance, maximum flexibility in tailoring wireless to the enterprise, all the while dramatically reducing the complexity of design, deployment, and maintenance.
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Do you support the IEEE 802.11 standards?
Yes. Extricom designs and builds only standards-compliant solutions.
Can the Extricom system operate alongside my existing WLAN equipment?
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Can the Extricom system run along side my existing WLAN equipment?
Yes. Since the Extricom system is compliant with the IEEE 802.11 "Wi-Fi" standard, and can therefore be integrated into your environment without changes to your current systems.
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Can I use any Wi-Fi client on the Extricom WLAN?
Yes. The Extricom WLAN is completely client agnostic, which means any off-the-shelf Wi-Fi client will function on the Extricom system, without any modifications or special software agents.
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Can your system support demanding real-time applications such as voice, video conferencing, and CRM?
Yes. Extricom's solution is designed specifically with high-bandwidth and real-time applications in mind. It delivers maximal and steady connection rates everywhere, even when mobile, while enabling the physical bandwidth of specific channels to be allocated for specific enterprise applications.
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What is a "channel blanket"?
Channel blanket is the term Extricom uses to refer to the way the Extricom system maximizes the use of every available Wi-Fi channel. The channel blanket topology is the answer to all of the inherent scale, performance, and complexity limitations imposed by the cell-based WLAN approach. The Extricom solution allows each 802.11a/b/g radio channel to be used everywhere, on every access point (AP), to create overlapping and continuous zones of coverage (channel blankets). Among the advantages of the channel blanket is the elimination of RF cell planning, co-channel interference, AP-to-AP handoffs, unpredictable bandwidth, and quality of service (QoS) degradation due to the contention between voice and data or mixed mode.
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What do you mean by "multi-layer WLAN"?
By using multi-radio, 802.11a/b/g APs, the Extricom system enables the deployment of multiple, overlapping and concurrent channel blankets, using any combination of channels, in any band, in any mode. The net effect is like having the functionality of multiple WLANs in one physical implementation, with the ability to specifically allocate each WLAN layer to different types of users, or devices, or applications, or any combination of each.
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Can the Extricom system be used in any country?
Yes, the Extricom solution can be deployed in any country that allows the use of the Wi-Fi specification.