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Infrastructure Mode

With a wireless access point, the wireless LAN can operate in the infrastructure mode. This mode lets you connect wirelessly to wireless network devices within a fixed range or area of coverage. The access point has one or more antennas that allow you to interact with wireless nodes.

In infrastructure mode, the wireless access point converts airwave data into wired Ethernet data, acting as a bridge between the wired LAN and wireless clients. Connecting multiple access points via a wired Ethernet backbone can further extend the wireless network coverage. As a mobile computing device moves out of the range of one access point, it moves into the range of another. As a result, wireless clients can freely roam from one access point domain to another and still maintain seamless network connection.