Brocade provides full life-cycle support for either a new or existing 802.11n mobility deployment,
from network design to day-to-day support. For information on deploying your 802.11n radio, see
Configuring the 802.11a/n or 802.11b/g/n Radio on page 5-167.

Sensor Support

The Brocade Wireless Intrusion Protection System (WIPS) protects your wireless network, mobile
devices and traffic from attacks and unauthorized access. WIPS provides tools for standards
compliance and around-the-clock 802.11a/b/g wireless network security in a distributed
environment. WIPS allows administrators to identify and accurately locate attacks, rogue devices
and network vulnerabilities in real time and permits both a wired and wireless lockdown of wireless
device connections upon acknowledgement of a threat.

An access point radio can function as a sensor and upload sensor mode operation information to a
dedicated WIPS server. WIPS is not supported on a WLAN basis, rather sensor functionality is
supported on the access point radio(s) available to each WLAN. When an access point radio is
functioning as a WIPS sensor, it is able to scan in sensor mode across all channels within the 2.4
and 5.0 GHz bands.

NOTE

Sensor support requires a Brocade AirDefense WIPS Server on the network. Sensor functionality is
not provided by the access point alone. The access point works in conjunction with a dedicated WIPS
server. For information on configuring an AirDefense server for optimal use with an access point in
sensor mode, go to

http://support.symbol.com/support/product/manuals.do

, select AirDefense and

download the Brocade AirDefense Enterprise 7.3.3 Users Guide.

The following is a network topology illustrating how a sensor functions within an access point
supported wireless network: