Installation guide

Appendix B
Adaptive AP
B.1 Adaptive AP Overview
An adaptive AP (AAP) is an AP-51XX access point that can adopt like an AP300 (L3). The management
of an AAP is conducted by the switch, once the access point connects to a Motorola WS5100 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.