Wireless Distribution System
A Wireless Distribution System (WDS) is a wireless network where the majority of the networks do not connect to a wired network but connect to each other. Any WAP that connects to the wired network is referred to as a main base station. A remote base station is one that receives data from wireless clients and forwards them to a main base station or relay base station. A relay base station receives data from main and remote base stations and forwards it to another base station.
By creating a wireless mesh network (Figure 4.10), we allow for redundancy in our network. If a base station fails, there are mechanisms in place to route the data to another relay base station for onward transmission:
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