Installation guide

1-18 Motorola RF Switch Systen Reference
• Heat map support for RF deployment
• Secure guest access with specific permission intervals
• Switch discovery enabling users to discover each Motorola switch on the specified network.
1.2.5 Security Features
Switch security can be classified into wireless security and wired security.
The switch includes the following wireless security features:
• Encryption and Authentication
• MU Authentication
• Secure Beacon
• MU to MU Disallow
• 802.1x Authentication
• WIPS
• Rogue AP Detection
The switch includes the following wired security features:
• ACLs
• Local Radius Server
• IPSec VPN
• NAT
• Certificate Management
• NAC
1.2.5.1 Encryption and Authentication
The switch can implement the following encryption and authentication types:
• WEP
• WPA
• WPA2
• Keyguard-WEP
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an encryption scheme used to secure wireless networks. WEP was
intended to provide comparable confidentiality to a traditional wired network, hence the name. WEP had
many serious weaknesses and hence was superseded by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). Regardless, WEP
still provides a level of security that can deter casual snooping. For more information on configuring WEP for
a target WLAN, see Configuring WEP 64 on page 4-56 or Configuring WEP 128 / KeyGuard on page 4-57.
WEP uses passwords entered manually at both ends (Pre Shared Keys). Using the RC4 encryption algorithm,
WEP originally specified a 40-bit key, but was later boosted to 104 bits. Combined with a 24-bit initialization
vector, WEP is often touted as having a 128-bit key.