PePWave True Address Gateway, TPW-100

PePWave True Address Gateway; TPW-100
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Inexpensive and Seamless Wi-Fi Network Expansion

Introducing the innovative PePWave True Address Gateway designed to overcome a common problem faced by wireless Internet service providers. Coupled with the PePWave Mesh Connector, the integrated solution allows service providers to expand wireless coverage economically.

Using a Wi-Fi repeater is an inexpensive way to extend high performance wireless networks, however it can cause issues with some providers' network authentication because end-user MAC addresses are lost in transit as the Wi-Fi repeater rewrites the network packets with its own MAC address.

Illustration: MAC Address Identification issue caused by 802.11 protocol limitations

By providing the existing subscriber gateway with the correct end-user layer-2 identification, PePWave TAG provides a drop-in solution to overcome this issue without any changes to the providers' existing network.

Illustration: TAG and Mesh Connector provide an integrated solution to extend wireless coverage, while maintaining authentication integrity.

Highlights

True MAC Address Identification - TAG enables MAC address identification by restoring the true MAC address information of each individual end-user.
Individual Customer Access Control - TAG allows WISPs to control the network access of each individual end-user in hospitality, convention, and hotspot areas.
Ease of Deployment - TAG interfaces with the centralized Access Gateway. It can be drop-in deployed on an existing network infrastructure without any configuration changes to existing devices.

Features

Discover Wireless Users True Identity - TAG attacks limitations in the 802.11 protocol standards that cause the loss of users' MAC addresses when using Wi-Fi repeaters
Collect Users True MAC Addresses - TAG receives user IP and MAC address information from one or multiple PePWave Mesh Connector devices
Restore True MAC Addresses - TAG provides instantaneous MAC address translation and restores users true MAC addresses as traffic passing through
Transparent Operation and Deployment - TAG works as a transparent layer-2 device and requires minimum configuration
Drop-in Installation - Simply configure TAG for your network, and plug it in.
Keep your configuration - TAG requires no configuration changes to your existing infrastructure
Seamless Layer-2 Authentication - Extend Wi-Fi coverage to popular locations, without sacrificing control over your network
Fully Compatible with Existing Subscriber Gateway - Since TAG transparently re-writes network packets before the subscriber gateway, the gateway only sees the correct identification
Layer-2 Authentication - Mesh connector relays each end-users layer-2 information to TAG before the information is lost in transit, allowing for true Layer-2 authentication
Enable cost effective coverage enhancement - TAG helps reduce the cost of a true indoor wireless experience
Make mesh make sense - Mesh Connector and TAG work with your existing Wi-Fi mesh to extend wireless coverage beyond the street level to popular indoor locations