- Aironet ARLAN
ARLAN is a family of both proprietary non-802.11 and 802.11-compliant wireless networking technologies developed and marketed by
Aironet Wireless Communications in the 1990s prior to Aironet's acquisition byCisco Systems . Operating in the 900 MHz and 2.4 GHzISM band s and offering a nominal 2.0 Mbit/s throughput, the non-802.11DSSS products competed directly withNCR 'sWaveLAN technology. After acquisition, the ARLAN lineup was renamed to Cisco Aironet; the non-802.11 products were supported briefly then discontinued.Hardware
The ARLAN lineup consisted of several offerings:
900 MHz DSSS non-802.11
*Half-length ISA card, part number 655-900, RP-TNC connector. Cisco part number 200-001292.
*MCA card, part number 670-900, RP-TNC connector
*PC card , part number 690-900, large external antenna dongle
*900 MHzaccess point , part number 630-900
*900 MHz bridge, part number 640-9002.4 GHz DSSS non-802.11
*Half-length ISA card, part number 655-2400 (later renamed to IC 2200), RP-TNC connector
*MCA card, part number 670-2400, RP-TNC connector
*PC card, part number 690-2400 (later renamed to PC 2200), large external antenna dongle
*2.4 GHz access point, part number 630-2400
*2.4 GHz bridge, part number 640-2400
*2.4 GHz high-speed bridge, part number BR2040-EE2.4 GHz FHSS early 802.11 draft D5 compliant
*2.4 GHz PC card, part number PC3000
*2.4 GHz PC card, part number LM3000
*2.4 GHz access point, part number AP3000Official specifications
External links
* [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2033/prod_eol_notice09186a00804b84ba.html Cisco End-Of-Life announcement about pre-acquisition Aironet devices]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050305153414/http://lucilia.ebc.ee/~enok/radiolink/HTMLDocument.html Wayback machine archive of documentation on an ARLAN backbone built in Latvia]
* [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html#Arlan Linux drivers for Aironet ARLAN]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19970125073545/www.aironet.com/prolist.htm Wayback machine archive of the Aironet products webpage]
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