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Autonomous vs. Lightweight Access Points
From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
Autonomous vs. Lightweight Access Points
- [Instructor] Wireless access points can be managed in a couple of different ways. Specifically, we can have autonomous APs, or lightweight APs. First, let's consider the autonomous access points. Here, each access point is managed individually. They have no direct knowledge of one another, they're not centrally administered. And that might be fine for a very small installation, but it's not going to scale well. As a second option, we can have lightweight APs. Here, a wireless LAN controller lets us administer all of the APs from a single interface. And if we go with this lightweight AP option, there are a couple of protocols that you might run into that are used to communicate between the wireless LAN controller and the APs. The first protocol is LWAPP. That stands for Lightweight Access Point Protocol. However, that's an older protocol, it's becoming less popular in favor of CAPWAP. That stands for Control and…
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