NWA1000 Series User’s Guide
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AP Profile
12.1 Overview
This chapter shows you how to configure preset profiles for the NWA1000 Series.
12.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter
• The
Radio
screen (
) creates radio configurations that can be used by the APs.
• The
SSID
screen (
) configures three different types of profiles for your
networked APs.
12.1.2 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 NWA1000 Series 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 32 radio profiles on the NWA1000 Series.
•
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 32 SSID profiles
on the NWA1000 Series.
•
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 32
security profiles on the NWA1000 Series.
•
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 32 MAC filtering profiles on the NWA1000 Series.
•
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.