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CPE security. The Customer Premises Equipment (your wireless antenna/transceiver) offer the traditional security associated with routed solutions: access lists, firewalls, and broadcast control.
Certified. Our wireless broadband operates on the 2.4ghz frequency. It is an unlicensed but NOT unregulated band. It's regulated through the rules of the 802.11 IEEE standard for wireless security.
Tested. The wireless infrastructure has been tested by third party security firms who check the "hackability" of the network. It continues to be tested and monitored.
- Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum transmission. DSSS was privatized from the military, and offers several layers of security:
- DSSS customer information is scrambled using a 7-stage sequence before it is modulated. Different parts of the data are sent over different parts of the channels, and that selection changes with every transmission. The signal is then "spread" using special codes. To intercept AND unscramble this transmission, a third party would have to build circuits to undo the unique sequence and modulation. Further they would have to "break" the unique codes used.
- DSSS equipment also uses a manufacturer's security protocol. Either a proprietary adaptive access protocol, called WCOPP, or 64-bit encryption, both of which prevents unauthorized transmission into the network. The choice depends on the manufacturer.
- A proprietary link layer in DSSS called ADP (Automatic Discovery Protocol) allows our base stations to set 3 different levels of authentication access into the network (keeping out unwanted intruders). We can allow access on a case-by-case manual basis, or by substations (your antenna) whose IDs are in our base stations' security logs.
In order to hack into your wireless connection, someone would have to have the same equipment, identify the channel of the antenna tower, understand the algorithms for DSSS that are used, and break through the equipment manufacturer protocols on hardware (WCOPP or 64-bit).
In conclusion you can depend on the same or better security provided by traditional copper wire T1s and DSL. Broadband wireless is simply a new way of providing that "last mile" connection to your premises. You can use the same security devices, firewalls, and VPNs possible with other circuits.
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