Ap Profile; Chapter 13 Ap Profile; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications NWA Series User Manual

13.1 Overview

This chapter shows you how to configure preset profiles for the Zyxel Device.

13.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

• The Radio screen
APs.
• The SSID screen
networked APs.

13.1.2 What You Need To Know

The following terms and concepts may help as you read this chapter.
Wireless Profiles
At the heart of all wireless AP configurations on the Zyxel Device are profiles. A profile represents a group
of saved settings that you can use across any number of connected APs. You can set up the following
wireless profile types:
• Radio - This profile type defines the properties of an AP's radio transmitter. You can have a maximum
of 64 radio profiles on the Zyxel Device.
• SSID - This profile type defines the properties of a single wireless network signal broadcast by an AP.
Each radio on a single AP can broadcast up to 8 SSIDs. You can have a maximum of 64 SSID profiles
on the Zyxel Device.
• Security - This profile type defines the security settings used by a single SSID. It controls the encryption
method required for a wireless client to associate itself with the SSID. You can have a maximum of 64
security profiles on the Zyxel Device.
• MAC Filtering - This profile provides an additional layer of security for an SSID, allowing you to block
access or allow access to that SSID based on wireless client MAC addresses. If a client's MAC address
is on the list, then it is either allowed or denied, depending on how you set up the MAC Filter profile.
You can have a maximum of 64 MAC filtering profiles on the Zyxel Device.
• Layer-2 Isolation - This profile defines the MAC addresses of the devices that you want to allow the
associated wireless clients to have access to when layer-2 isolation is enabled.
SSID
The SSID (Service Set IDentifier) is the name that identifies the Service Set with which a wireless station is
associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID. In other
words, it is the name of the wireless network that clients use to connect to it.
(Section 13.2 on page
(Section 13.3 on page 136) configures three different types of profiles for your
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