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Adaptive AP

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Adaptive AP Overview
An adaptive AP (AAP) is an Access Point that can adopt like a Mobility 300 (Layer 3). The
management of an AAP is conducted by the controller, once the Access Point connects to a
Brocade Mobility RFS6000 Controller or Mobility RFS7000 Controller model controller and receives
its AAP configuration.
An AAP provides:
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An AAP's controller 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 controller can be discovered using one of the following mechanisms:
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The benefits of an AAP deployment include:
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Supported Adaptive AP Topologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
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How the AP Receives its Adaptive Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
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Establishing Basic Adaptive AP Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
local 802.11 traffic termination
local encryption/decryption
local traffic bridging
the tunneling of centralized traffic to the wireless controller
DHCP
Controller fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Static IP addresses
Centralized Configuration Management & Compliance - Wireless configurations across
distributed sites can be centrally managed by the wireless controller 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.
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