Directional access point

Directional access point

— a variety of access points in which the coverage area has a clear direction. For more information about access points, see the relevant paragraph, and in this type of these devices, the signal does not diverge evenly in all directions, but in a certain direction, in the form of a beam or sector.

Directional models have two main applications. The first is situations when the access point needs to be installed not in the centre, but on the edge of the overlapped zone — for example, in the corner of the room. In this case, the directional design allows you to concentrate almost all the transmitter power in the working area, without wasting it on "unnecessary" directions. The second use case is wireless communication over long distances, for example, between networks in different buildings in bridge mode (see "Features"); in some directional access points, the communication range reaches 10 km or even more. Of course, for such communication, the device on the other side of the wireless channel must also have the appropriate range, so the easiest way in such cases is to use two access points with the same characteristics.