Brocade Mobility 7131 Access Point Product Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.4.0.0 and later) - Manual (Page 483)

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Chapter
10
Adaptive AP
In this chapter
• . Adaptive AP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
• Supported Adaptive AP Topologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
• How the AP Receives its Adaptive Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
• 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:
• local 802.11 traffic termination
• local encryption/decryption
• local traffic bridging
• 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:
• DHCP
• Switch fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
• Static IP addresses
The benefits of an AAP deployment include:
• Centralized Configuration Management & Compliance - Wireless configurations across
distributed sites can be centrally managed by the wireless switch or cluster.
• WAN Survivability - Local WLAN services at a remote sites are unaffected in the case of a WAN
outage.
• 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.
• Maintain local WLAN's for in store applications - WLANs created and supported locally can be
concurrently supported with your existing infrastructure.