Wireless ISP Protocols

KarlNet's exclusive TurboCell protocols were designed from the beginning to increase security and performance in outdoor point-to-multipoint links. As international standards such as IEEE 802.11 have been implemented, radio performance has increased and hardware costs have decreased to the point where it is an extremely attractive option for Internet Service Providers to provide their service over the air. All of KarlNet's products are 100% compatible with the IEEE 802.11 11 Mbps High Speed standard, and offer the highest actual data throughput of any IEEE 802.11 product.

Beginning with the original Lucent WaveLAN cards, KarlNet extended the TurboCell protocol (then known as CellWave) to allow for per-station bandwidth throttling, access licensing, and increased authentication capabilities. Planned for first quarter 2000, a special upgrade version of TurboCell will be released with wireless link authentication of the satellite radio cards by MAC Address and individual users by username and password. TurboCell also makes it possible to authenticate both stations and users to standard RADIUS servers already in use at ISP's around the world.

Wireless Internet clients can connect to the Internet backbone directly py PC using the TurboCell PC driver, or by wired connection to a wireless satellite station as in standard Point-to-Multipoint setups.

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