User Guide

OmniAccess RN: User Guide
12 Part 031650-00 May 2005
z The Wireless LAN environment should be a single switch environment.
Future releases of the code are planned to enable multi-switch support and
redundancy.
Securing Communications
The Remote Access Point configurations can also be used to secure control
traffic between the AP and the switch in a corporate environment. In this case,
the AP and switch are in the company’s private address space. The Remote AP
will be similar to the Alcatel AP while tunneling and encrypting all data and
control traffic to the switch.
How the Secure Remote Access Point Service
Works
The Secure Remote Access Point Service APs can be deployed in one of the
following ways:
1. The Remote Access Point and switch in a private network which is used to
secure AP-to-switch communication. (Alcatel recommends this deployment
when AP-to-switch communications need to be secured.)