Chapter 5 Management Mode; Overview; About Capwap - ZyXEL Communications NWA-3160 User Manual

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5.1 Overview

This chapter discusses using the NWA in management mode. This screen
determines whether the NWA is used in its default standalone mode, or as part of
a Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) network.

5.2 About CAPWAP

The NWA supports CAPWAP. This is ZyXEL's implementation of the IETF's CAPWAP
protocol (RFC 4118).
The CAPWAP dataflow is protected by Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS).
The following figure illustrates a CAPWAP wireless network. You (U) configure the
AP controller (C), which then automatically updates the configurations of the
managed APs (M1 ~ M4).
Figure 56 CAPWAP Network Example
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