UNPARALLELED SECURITY
Acting as an air monitor, the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess APs deliver 100 Mbps of intrusion analysis and relays alerts back to the OmniAccess WLAN switch. Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess APs detect and thwart rogue APs and wireless intrusions such as DoS and man-in- the-middle attacks.
Since the OmniAccess WLAN switch manages Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniAccess APs, no critical configuration information – such as passwords, encryption keys, or digital certificates – is stored on the APs. If APs are lost or stolen, no sensitive information can be obtained.
Conventional WLAN systems decrypt wireless traffic at the AP and store electronic keys derived from the requisite exchanges performed between the client and the authentication server of each AP. Local storage of this information poses serious security risks for large corporations if an access point is lost or stolen, or if a fake AP or man-in-the-middle attack is launched.
Remote office security policies are centrally defined and enforced. In addition, like all Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess APs, secure remote APs simply appear as another AP on the system and have the same features and functions, which are centrally managed by Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess WLAN switches.
Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess AP 7
