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Scenario 2: Intelligent Wireless Access Edge

Enterasys NAC Design Guide 3-7

Thick Wireless Edge

Inathickwirelessdeployment,accesspointsforwardwirelessend‐systemtrafficdirectlyontothe

wiredinfrastructurewithouttheuseofawirelessswitch.Thickwirelessdeploymentsmayormay

notbecategorizedundertheintelligentwirelessaccessedgeusescenariodependingonthe

functionalitysupportedbytheAPs.

Thefollowing

figureillustrateshowtheNACGatewayandtheotherEnterasysNACcomponents

providenetworkaccesscontrolinathickwirelessdeployment.

Figure 3-4 Intelligent Wireless Access Edge - Intelligent AP (RFC 3580 Compliant

Wireless Access

Point

1

4

5

2

3

3

Enterasys

NAC Manager

NAC Gateway

(out-of-band appliance)

Assessment

Server

Authentication

Server

(optionally integrated

in NAC Gateway)

VLAN=Production

1

2

3

4

5

NAC Functions

Detect

Authenticate

Assess

Authorize

Remediate

Remediation

Web Page

3

5

VLAN=Quarantine

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