Designed for indoor use, the D-LinkAir Pro DWL-A650 is a powerful notebook PC CardBus adapter that gives users mobile access to networks. It provides roaming capabilities from cell to cell and from network to network. The DWL-A650 has a Type II PCMCIA interface for a slimline design and maximum efficiency. At 54 megabits per second (Mbps), the DWL-A650 5 GHz high-speed wireless CardBus adapter delivers the fastest standards-based wireless technology in the industry. With both WiFi5 certification compatibility and IEEE 802.11a standard compliance, the D-LinkAir Pro DWL-A650 high-speed wireless adapter provides excellent network interoperability.
A proprietary turbo mode allows the DWL-A650 to operate at significantly greater data rates, up to 72 Mbps. Eight nonoverlapping channels create less interference, which supplies higher average cell throughput to clients. The DWL-A650 employs enhanced 152-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and dynamic key exchange (DKE) to protect data from unauthorized access.
The D-LinkAir Pro DWL-A650 is easily installed in a laptop PC to provide connectivity directly to another wireless-enabled device (ad hoc mode) or through an 802.11a-based access point (infrastructure mode).