CONFIGURING WIRELESS SERVICES
What are Services? A service is a concept (not a selectable item in the 3WXM interface) that
represents a set of options you configure and deploy on your wireless
network. Services are configured to provide various levels of wireless
network access to users, such as secure employee access, guest access,
multi-hosted access, or Voice over Wireless IP (VoWIP) access.
You can configure a service to be independent of other services on your
wireless network, or you may be able to share configuration components
among services. For example, multi-hosted access is typically fully isolated
from other services (no shared configuration), while services that provide
for guest and employee access in a single corporation may share a
common radio profile. In this way, you can reuse part of the service
configuration for other services you want to provide. You could configure
a service for employee access; then reuse part of the configuration to
provide services for guest access.
Each service has potential authentication types (802.1X, web page, MAC
address, or open access) and potential encryption types (802.11i, WPA,
WEP, or unencrypted). (Open Access is sometimes called last resort.)
This chapter contains examples to help you configure the following types
of service sets:
Employee access (802.1X)
Guest access (Web Portal)
Voice over IP (MAC AAA)
The configuration examples in this chapter take place on a WX switch
already in the network plan. However, you also can preconfigure services
in a policy and apply the policy to WX switches later.
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