Chapter 1 Introduction

1.2.5 Pre-Configured SSID Profiles

The NWA has two pre-configured SSID profiles.

•VoIP_SSID. This profile is intended for use by wireless clients requiring the highest QoS level for VoIP telephony and other applications requiring low latency. The QoS level of this profile is not user-configurable.

•Guest_SSID. This profile is intended for use by visitors and others who require access to certain resources on the network (an Internet gateway or a network printer, for example) but must not have access to the rest of the network. Layer 2 isolation is enabled (see Section on page 178), and QoS is set to NONE.

Intra-BSS traffic blocking is also enabled (see Section 8.1.2 on page 120). These fields are all user-configurable.

1.3CAPWAP

The NWA supports Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP). This is ZyXEL’s implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) CAPWAP protocol.

ZyXEL’s CAPWAP allows a single access point to manage up to eight other access points. The managed APs receive all their configuration information from the controller AP. The CAPWAP dataflow is protected by Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS).

The following ZyXEL AP models can be CAPWAP managed APs:

•NWA-3160

•NWA-3163

•NWA-3500

•NWA-3550

•NWA-3166

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