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Introduction

1.1 Overview

Your NWA3000-N series AP’s business-class reliability, SMB features, and centralized wireless management make it ideally suited for advanced service delivery in mission-critical networks. The NWA3000-N series AP provides secure mobility across the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrums and the IEEE 802.11n standard’s high bandwidth to support high-performance applications. It uses Multiple BSSID and VLAN to provide up to eight simultaneous independent virtual APs. Additionally, innovations in roaming technology and QoS features eliminate voice call disruptions. It can serve as an AP, Bridge, Repeater or even as an RF monitor to search for rouge APs to help eliminate network threats.

The NWA3000-N series AP controls network access with Media Access Control (MAC) address filtering, rogue Access Point (AP) detection and containment, and an internal authentication server. It also provides a high level of network traffic security, supporting IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), WPA2 and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) data encryption.

A NWA3000-N series AP can manage up to 24 other NWA3000-N series APs on your network. Configuration profiles let you easily use different WLAN and security settings for various virtual and managed APs.

Your NWA3000-N series AP is easy to install, configure and use. The embedded Web-based configurator enables simple, straightforward management and maintenance. See the Quick Start Guide for how to make hardware connections.

 

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NWA3000-N Series User’s Guide