Dumb and dumber APs in line for Wi-Fi. (Networks).

Wireless Week, February, 2003 by Smith, Brad

Can the individual parts of a wireless network be too smart? That's a question that some Wi-Fi infrastructure providers are answering in the affirmative. The theory is enterprises that deploy a wireless LAN with multiple access points run into problems such as central management, configuration, upgrading technologies and user authentication.

The problems, these companies contend, are due to too much intelligence in the APs. Symbol Technologies of San Jose, Calif., was the first to come out with a solution to this problem last year with its Mobius product line. Mobius is a Wi-Fi switch that sits in a WLAN and connects to dumb access ports, as well as an existing Ethernet switch. Several new companies are getting into the smart switch-dumb port...

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