A wireless bridge is primarily used in corporate LANs, which often span across geographical locations. In a typical scenario, a wireless bridge must be installed at both the ends of the LAN to be connected.

At the back-end the wireless bridges are connected to the LAN switch or router. For the two network segments to communicate, each data packet travels from the local Ethernet/router to the wireless bridge, which wirelessly broadcasts it to the wireless bridge of the other LAN segment. Besides point-to-point bridging, a wireless bridge can also be connected to more than one wireless bridges simultaneously.