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WLAN Management
JadeOS provides solutions of wireless controller and FIT AP.
Wireless controller uniformly configure, manage and maintain a large quantity of APs,
which greatly reduces the maintenance of wireless network. JadeOS supports AP
without configuration, which is convenient to expand FIT AP and wireless network.
JadeOS also supports centralized authentication, which is convenient to uniformly
access and authenticate. At the same time, it is better to do the function of wireless
roaming, RF management and load balance of AP access for AP centralized manage-
ment.
With the standard CAPWAP protocol, AC manages and controls AP through
CAPWAP control channel; the data forwarding between AP and AC is through
CAPWAP data channel. For CAPWAP is transferred based on Layer-3 network, it
supports flexible network deployment in multi network; with the standard protocol, it
raises the possibility of interconnection between different products from different
manufacturers. Forwarding mode supports AC centralized forwarding and AP local
forwarding. Authentication mode supports AC centralized authentication and AP local
authentication.
10.1 Wireless Network Architecture
10.1.1 CAPWAP Description
Control and provisioning of wireless access points (CAPWAP) protocol is belonging
to IETF. It rules the interconnection between WTP and AC, which achieve the man-
agement and data forwarding for all the WTPs controlled by AC. Now CAPWAP is
classified into two types:
• CAPWAP control channel
• CAPWAP data channel
10.1.2 CAPWAP Control Channel
CAPWAP control channel is classified into two types:
Static discovery: specify the IP address of AC in AP
Dynamic discovery: configure broadcast discovery, DHCP discovery and DNS dis-
covery and so on in AP
More, AP will actively require update version and configuration, which reduce the
maintenance.