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Adaptive AP
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Supported adaptive AP topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
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How the AP receives its adaptive configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
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Establishing basic adaptive AP connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Adaptive AP overview
An adaptive AP (AAP) is an access point that can adopt like an access port. The management of an
AAP is conducted by the switch, once the access point connects to a Brocade Mobility RFS7000-GR
Controller 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.