CCIE Wireless v3 Study Guide, First Edition

Chapter 2

Network Infrastructure

Introduction

More often than not, wireless engineers or any other people interested in wireless tend to focus only on the wireless side of things, because it is what started their passion for networking in the first place. However, it is precisely because an access point is a device bridging 802.11 wireless frames to 802.3 Ethernet frames, and vice versa, that a good wireless administrator will need to be proficient in configuring the wired infrastructure to support the wireless network. The best designed wireless infrastructure will perform very poorly if there is poor design, planning, or configuring on the wired side of things. In many other cases, certain types of wireless traffic will simply not work or ...