SPEEDLAN® 8000 series products are high-performance 11 Mb wireless broadband solutions tailored to fit the needs of Internet Service Providers, Enterprise Customers and broadband telecommunications providers.

Service providers utilize these products as alternatives to offering leased lines for subscriber access to Internet service. SPEEDLAN 8000 products offer a complete wireless connectivity solution with a choice of turnkey wireless bridges or single device adapters.

SPEEDLAN 8000 products go where cable cannot go, expanding the subscriber base without dependence upon the telephone company infrastructure and can be installed immediately without waiting for telephone company installation. As a provider's network grows, connections may be expanded incrementally to create entire wireless metropolitan area networks.

SPEEDLAN 8000 series products present an unparalleled level of performance and features, including RIP 2 routing, Network Address Translation (NAT), Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) Server, and fully configurable bandwidth.

Network Address Translation (NAT) helps increase network security and allows the occupants of an entire building to share a single global IP address for communication with the Internet. Using NAT at each remote location, a service provider can supply the building with just one global IP address regardless of the number of users at that location.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server provides efficient use of IP addresses by allowing their assignment to be made dynamically. By localizing the DHCP transactions within each remote building, this administrative traffic is kept off of the wireless segment and reduces the load on the entire wireless network.

Bandwidth configuration options are used to limit the traffic burst rate for each  remote location to any increment of 1 Kb. Service providers can now gain a better level of control over their wireless network, increase customer satisfaction, and increase revenue generation for each broadband cell.

The 8000 series includes the outdoor, remote-mounted SPEEDLAN 8100/8200. The 8100 acts as a central base station and the 8200 acts as Customer Premise Equipment (CPE). The 8100 and 8200 are installed using a unique outdoor, remote-mounted design. The 8100 and 8200 allow up to 300' of specialized, outdoor Ethernet cable to be used between the LAN and the RF device, without introducing loss of any radio signal. This increases the effective wireless link distance and reduces, or even eliminates, the need for an amplifier.