Cylink AirLink Bridge - Long Distance Wireless Bridge Performance vs. Solectek

Cylink Corp. AirLink Bridge - Long Distance Wireless Bridge Performance vs. Solectek

Sponsor: Cylink Corporation

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Document Number: 5264

Publication Date: 5/15/1995

Page Count: 4

Abstract

Cylink Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to test the frames-per-second handling capacity of the Cylink AirLink (wireless) bridge and to demonstrate the bridge's ability to connect Ethernet LANs at extended distances and compare its performance to that of the Solectek AIRLAN/Bridge Plus. Both solutions use proprietary technology for long distance wireless transmission.

In addition to performing baseline tests with the bridges co-located in The Tolly Group's lab, engineers performed testing at two set of other sites separated by distances of 2 and 12 miles respectively. The Cylink AirLink Bridge was able to deliver unidirectional throughput of 477.70 Kbit/s of 64-byte frames in all tests.

The same tests were run on a Solectek AIRLAN/Bridge Plus remote wireless bridge. Co-located, the Solectek bridge forwarded unidirectional traffic at 251.90 Kbit/s. At 2 miles, that was reduced to 12.29 Kbit/s. As the Solectek wireless bridge is only rated at 3 miles, tests were not run as it was beyond the rated limit.