
D-74 Psion Teklogix 9160 G2 Wireless Gateway User Manual
Appendix D: Glossary
WMM
WMM
Wireless Multimedia (WMM) is a IEEE technology standard designed to improve the
quality of audio, video and multimedia applications on a wireless network. Both access
points and wireless clients (laptops, consumer electronics products) can be WMM-enabled.
WMM features are based on is a subset of the WLAN IEEE 802.11e draft specification.
Wireless products that are built to the standard and pass a set of quality tests can carry the
“Wi-Fi certified for WMM” label to ensure interoperability with other such products. For
more information, see the WMM page on the Wi-Fi Alliance Web site:
http://www.wi-fi.org/OpenSection/wmm.asp.
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a Wi-Fi Alliance version of the draft IEEE 802.11h
standard. It provides more sophisticated data encryption than WEP and also provides user
authentication. WPA includes TKIP and 802.1x mechanisms.
WPA2
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2) is an enhanced security standard, described in IEEE
802.11h, that uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for data encryption.
The original WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for data encryption. WPA2
is backwards-compatible with products that support the original WPA.
WPA2, like the original WPA, supports an Enterprise and Personal version. The Enterprise
version requires use of IEEE 802.1x security features and Extensible Authentication
Protocol (EAP) authentication with a RADIUS server.
The Personal version does not require IEEE 802.1x or EAP. It uses a Pre-Shared Key (PSK)
password to generate the keys needed for authentication.
WRAP
Wireless Robust Authentication Protocol (WRAP) is an encryption method for 802.11h that
uses AES but another encryption mode (
OCB) for encryption and integrity.
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