Product Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.4.0.0)

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Chapter
10
Adaptive AP
In this chapter
•Adaptive AP overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
•Supported adaptive AP topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
•How the AP receives its adaptive configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
•Establishing basic adaptive AP connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Adaptive AP overview
An adaptive AP (AAP) is a Product Name access point that can adopt like a Mobility 300 (L3). The
management of an AAP is conducted by the controller, once the access point connects to a
Brocade Mobility RFS6000 Controller or Mobility RFS7000 Controller 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 controller
An AAP’s controller 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 controller can be discovered using one of the following mechanisms:
• DHCP
• Controller 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 controller 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.