Installation guide

Overview 1-7
• Rate Limiting
• Proxy-ARP
• HotSpot / IP Redirect
• IDM (Identity Driven Management)
• Voice Prioritization
• Self Healing
• Wireless Capacity
• AP and MU Load Balancing
• Wireless Roaming
• Power Save Polling
• QoS
• Wireless Layer 2 Switching
• Automatic Channel Selection
• WMM-Unscheduled APSD
• Multiple VLANs per WLAN
1.2.2.1 Adaptive AP
An adaptive AP (AAP) is an AP-5131 or AP-7131 Access Point adopted by a wireless switch. The management
of an AAP is conducted by the switch, once the Access Point connects to the switch and receives its AAP
configuration.
An AAP provides:
• local 802.11 traffic termination
• local encryption/decryption
• local traffic bridging
• tunneling of centralized traffic to the wireless switch
The connection between the AAP and the switch can be secured using 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.