Brocade Communications Systems RFS6000 System Reference Manual page 20

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Adaptive AP
An adaptive AP (AAP) is a Brocade Mobility 7131 Series Access Point adopted by a wireless switch.
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:
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The connection between the AAP and the switch can be secured using 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:
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The benefits of an AAP deployment include:
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For an overview of AAP and how it is configured and deployed using the switch and Access Point,
see
Adaptive AP
Physical Layer Features
802.11a
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Wireless Layer 2 Switching
Automatic Channel Selection
WMM-Unscheduled APSD
Multiple VLANs per WLAN
local 802.11 traffic termination
local encryption/decryption
local traffic bridging
tunneling of centralized traffic to the wireless switch
DHCP
Switch fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Static IP addresses
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 specific applications - WLANs created and supported locally can be
concurrently supported with your existing infrastructure.
Overview.
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:
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Detect interference from other systems and avoid co-channeling with those systems (most
notably radar systems).
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