Management Mode - ZyXEL Communications NWA3000-N Series User Manual

NWA3000-N series AP provides multiple virtual APs, each forming its own BSS and
using its own individual SSID profile.
You can assign different wireless and security settings to each SSID profile. This
allows you to compartmentalize groups of users, set varying access privileges, and
prioritize network traffic to and from certain BSSs.
To the wireless clients in the network, each SSID appears to be a different access
point. As in any wireless network, clients can associate only with the SSIDs for
which they have the correct security settings.
See Section 4.1 on page 55

1.3 Management Mode

One NWA3000-N series AP uses Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points
(CAPWAP, see RFC 5415) to allow one AP to configure and manage up to 24
others. This centralized management can greatly reduce the effort of setting up
and maintaining multiple devices.
An NWA3000-N series AP in this group (ZLD-based models) can manage other APs
in this group
• NWA3160-N
• NWA3550-N
• NWA3560-N
It can also use legacy device information hyper-links to connect to the Web
Configurators of the following ZyNOS-based NWA-3000 series APs:
• NWA-3160
• NWA-3163
• NWA-3500
• NWA-3550
• NWA-3166
1. Not all of these models were available at the time of writing.
NWA3000-N Series User's Guide
for an example of using MBSS.
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