topic Re: First time wireless WAN in Wireless https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/first-time-wireless-wan/m-p/374359#M154902 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What are the distance between the buidlings? If the distance between the buildings is more than 1 mile (a restriction imposed by IEEE), you need to implement a propietary solution. Do the vendor provide such propietary solution?</P><P></P><P>What kind of encryption is supported? (you may want to use AES for enhanced security)</P><P>Do they support WPA? (AES requires WPA v2 for inter-vendor compatibility). If you do not use AES, you may want to use TKIP, which requires WPA v1.</P><P>What kind of authentication(s) are supported? You should use a mutual authentication method, for example LEAP.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:28:11 GMT dixho 2005-02-01T01:28:11Z First time wireless WAN https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/first-time-wireless-wan/m-p/374358#M154901 <P>Hi Everyone,</P><P></P><P>My organization is currently expanding, and we would like to connect two remote offices wirelessly. This venture will be outsourced; however, realizing that I have never worked with a wireless setup I would like to know what sort of information should I be requesting in a proposal from these vendors, besides the usual like encryption? </P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Sam</P><P></P> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:19:55 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/first-time-wireless-wan/m-p/374358#M154901 Samantham 2021-07-04T17:19:55Z Re: First time wireless WAN https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/first-time-wireless-wan/m-p/374359#M154902 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What are the distance between the buidlings? If the distance between the buildings is more than 1 mile (a restriction imposed by IEEE), you need to implement a propietary solution. Do the vendor provide such propietary solution?</P><P></P><P>What kind of encryption is supported? (you may want to use AES for enhanced security)</P><P>Do they support WPA? (AES requires WPA v2 for inter-vendor compatibility). If you do not use AES, you may want to use TKIP, which requires WPA v1.</P><P>What kind of authentication(s) are supported? You should use a mutual authentication method, for example LEAP.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:28:11 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/first-time-wireless-wan/m-p/374359#M154902 dixho 2005-02-01T01:28:11Z