Wireless Access Point
66 Installing the Wireless AP
Common Deployment Options
The following table lists some typical and recommended deployment options for
a number of the features that have been discussed in this chapter.
See Also
Coverage and Capacity Planning
Network Management Planning
Planning Your Installation
Power Planning
Security Planning
Function
Number of Wireless APs
One or Two Three or More
Power Power over Ethernet Power over Ethernet
UPS backup
(recommended)
Failover Recommended Highly recommended
VLANs Optional Optional use,
Can be used to put all APs
on one VLAN or map to
existing VLAN scheme
Encryption WPA2 with AES
(recommended)
PSK or 802.1x
WPA2 with AES
(recommended)
802.1x keying
Authentication Internal RADIUS server
EAP-PEAP
Pre-Shared Key
External RADIUS server
Management Cloud XMS or
Internal WMI
Internal CLI (via SSHv2)
Cloud XMS or
XMS (Enterprise-hosted)
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