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Chapter 1 Introducing the NWA
NWA-3500/NWA-3550 User’s Guide
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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 DTLS (Datagram Transport
Layer Security).
At the time of writing, the following ZyXEL AP models can be CAPWAP managed
APs:
• NWA-3160
• NWA-3163
• NWA-3500
• NWA-3550
• NWA-8500
The following figure illustrates a CAPWAP wireless network. The user (U)
configures the controller AP (C), which then automatically updates the
configurations of the managed APs (M1 ~ M4).
Figure 7 CAPWAP Network Example
1.4 Ways to Manage the NWA
Use any of the following methods to manage the NWA.
• Web Configurator. This is recommended for everyday management of the NWA
using a (supported) web browser.
• Command Line Interface. Line commands are mostly used for troubleshooting
by service engineers.
U
C
M1 M2 M3 M4