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AP connections and management protocols

AP connections and management protocols

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AP connections and management protocols

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- [Narrator] A Cisco Wireless LAN Controller can come in a few forms. A physical piece of dedicated hardware, a VM image, or embedded in some catalyst switches. When in physical form, they often have multiple interfaces that can be used for connectivity. A common practice to gain more throughput and additional redundancy is to form an EtherChannel between the wireless LAN controller and the switching infrastructure connecting to the APs. This is often referred to as a Link Aggregation Group, or LAG. Access points generally physically connect to switches via trunk ports. Trunk ports allow for multiple VLANs to go to the access point, which gives an administrator the most flexibility. For security purposes, it's a best practice to place the management interface of network equipment, regardless if it's an AP, switch, or phone, into a management VLAN. This will segregate user traffic from management. So not only does trunking allow management traffic to be in a different VLAN, it's also…

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