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Adaptive AP
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How the AP Receives its Adaptive Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
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Establishing Basic Adaptive AP Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Adaptive AP Overview
An adaptive AP (AAP) is an access point that can adopt like a br300 (L3). The management of an
AAP is conducted by the switch, once the access point connects to a Brocade Mobility RFS4000,
RFS6000 or RFS7000 model switch and receives its AAP configuration.
An AAP provides:
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local 802.11 traffic termination
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local encryption/decryption
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local traffic bridging
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the tunneling of centralized traffic to the wireless switch
An AAP’s switch connection can be secured using IP/UDP or IPSec depending on whether a secure
WAN link from a remote site to the central site already exists.
The switch can be discovered using one of the following mechanisms:
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DHCP
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Switch fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
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Static IP addresses
The benefits of an AAP deployment include:
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Centralized Configuration Management & Compliance - Wireless configurations across
distributed sites can be centrally managed by the wireless switch or cluster.
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WAN Survivability - Local WLAN services at a remote sites are unaffected in the case of a WAN
outage.
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Securely extend corporate WLAN's to stores for corporate visitors - Small home or office
deployments can utilize the feature set of a corporate WLAN from their remote location.
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Maintain local WLAN's for in store applications - WLANs created and supported locally can be
concurrently supported with your existing infrastructure.