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Altitude 3500 Series Access Point Product Reference Guide
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C H A P T E R
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Adaptive AP
Adaptive AP Overview
An adaptive AP (AAP) is an Altitude 35xx access point that can adopt like an Altitude 4600 series access
point (L3). The management of an AAP is conducted by the controller, once the access point connects to
an Extreme Networks controller and receives its AAP configuration.
An AAP provides:
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local 802.11 traffic termination
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local encryption/decryption
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local traffic bridging
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the tunneling of centralized traffic to the wireless controller
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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DHCP
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Controller fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
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Static IP addresses
The benefits of an AAP deployment include:
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Centralized Configuration Management & Compliance— Wireless configurations across distributed sites
can be centrally managed by the wireless controller or cluster.
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WAN Survivability —Local WLAN services at a remote sites are unaffected in the case of a WAN
outage.
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Securely extend corporate WLANs to stores for corporate visitors —Small home or office deployments can
utilize the feature set of a corporate WLAN from their remote location.
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Maintain local WLANs for in store applications —WLANs created and supported locally can be
concurrently supported with your existing infrastructure.