Motorola WS5100 Series Reference Manual page 18

1-8 WS5100 Series Switch System Reference Guide
• Wireless Roaming
• Power Save Polling
• QoS
• Wireless Layer 2 Switching
• Automatic Channel Selection
• WMM-Unscheduled APSD
• Multiple VLANs per
1.2.2.1 Adaptive AP
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 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
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.
For an overview of AAP and how it is configured and deployed using the switch and access point, see
B.1 Adaptive AP
1.2.2.2 Physical Layer Features
802.11a
• DFS Radar Avoidance – Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) is mandatory for WLAN equipment intended
to operate in the frequency bands 5150 MHz to 5350 MHz and 5470 MHz to 5725 MHz when in countries
of the EU.
The purpose of DFS is:
WLAN\
Overview.