Is Canopy Wi-Fi?

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Hi guys,

We have a client who insists on saying that Canopy is WiFi and won’t use it because he said WiFi is insecure.

Can you guys point me to some documentation that will show this guy that we are NOT wifi and hence do not suffer from wifi vunerablilities?

Thanks

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Download the product brochure off the website. http://motorola.canopywireless.com/prod … recID=1461

Canopy is a Layer2 fixed point wireless system. You cannot connect a WiFi adapter to it. Governments and corporations use Canopy.

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Canopy is FIXED WIRELESS. its not WIFI. =D

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Thanks for the replies but what I was hoping for is a link to some PDF or whatever that would allow me to give this client a third-party opinion or some kind of official document.

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vanilla wrote:
Hi guys,

We have a client who insists on saying that Canopy is WiFi and won't use it because he said WiFi is insecure.

Can you guys point me to some documentation that will show this guy that we are NOT wifi and hence do not suffer from wifi vunerablilities?

Thanks


Take a look here
http://motorola.canopywireless.com/support/library/
and then General FAQ. There is a PDF document wich points something related to security (not exactly wi-fi).

Look all of those PDF files, you can find something :)
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Forgot to add Wi-Fi uses WEP or WPA Encryption and Canopy uses DES and AES data encryption methods. Obviously the last are the most safe option.

Canopy supports VLAN to make even more secure the client radio-link.
VLAN works this way:


AP ------VLAN1–> SM(1)
| |-------VLAN2–>SM(2)
|
|----VLAN3----------> SM(3)

So this ensures client number 3 it has no access to client number 2 and 1 and viceversa.
Canopy is the only Wireless device i know wich uses this function because 802.11b and 802.11g standars doesn’t supports it.

If anyone knows some 802.11x Outdoor Access Point (Amplified) with VLAN support I would be very pleased and thankfull to receive the information.

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Setup a demo for him and attempt to use an 802.11 compliant adapter to connect to your Canopy network to show him that it won’t work.

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If anyone knows some 802.11x Outdoor Access Point (Amplified) with VLAN support I would be very pleased and thankfull to receive the information.

Here is one that I know of. Hope it helps. I have no personal experience with these. They were on the shelf about 2 months to late.
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellit … torWrapper

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Thanks, I will take a look