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Outline
Product introduction
Application introduction
Configuration
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Product introduction
Altai Wireless Access Controller (hereinafter called AC) delivers
powerful WLAN access control and user authentication gateway
capability by virtue of Plug & Play, compact design, high
reliability, multiple services, as well as accurate and flexible billing,
integrate multiple functions into one box, e.g. user control and
management, RF management and security, can be widely used
in the enterprise WLAN access, hotel, operator public hotspot
scenarios.
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Product Overview
Integrated chassis
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AC Specifications
AC 200
AC 500
AC 2000
AC 4000
AC 12000
Service slot
12
Switching slot
12
36
GE port
24
GE SFP port
48
96
288
Power redundancy
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
AP license
256
512
2,048
4,096
12,288
Appearance
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2 x Service card
12 x Service card
4 x Service card
2 x Switching card
(included)
2 x Switching card
(included)
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Service Card
for AC 2000, 4000 and 12000
(back view)
Service Card
(front view)
Product introduction
Altai AC system supports the IETF CAPWAP protocol for AP
connection, can be flexible deployed in existing Layer-2 or Layer3 network without reconfiguration, effectively reducing network
construction cost. Altai AC products is based on a unified
hardware and software platform, highly normalized design, and
effectively reduce for spare parts
Altai low-end AC has five models as follow deliver different
physical port density and AP access capability respectively
provide on-demand flexible selection for the network.
AP Controller
User Gateway
Access Controller
Key features
Flexible forwarding mode
Altai AC provide local forwarding and centralized forwarding
modeuser can flexible setting according to business need and
actual network situation
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Key features
Easy maintenance
Support WEB/CLI management, unified configuration profile, fast
provision
Deployment across L3 network, flexible networking
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Product introduction
Application introduction
Configuration
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Mechanism overview
The AC can process both control flows and data flows.
Management flow is transmitted over Control And Provisioning of
Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol. User data flows can
be transmitted over CAPWAP tunnels or not, as required.
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This pair of
message may be
transmitted
multiple times
The three
pairs of
messages are
sent
periodically
after reboot.
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Application scenario
Distributed forwarding (Local breakout) mode
Centralized forwarding mode
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Internet
BRAS
Main AC
Trunk
VRRP
Aggregation
switch
Standby AC
L2 network
Hotspot 1
STA
AP 1
Hotspot n
switch
AP n
AP 1
AP n
Centralized forwarding
In centralized forwarding mode, wireless user service data is
transmitted between APs and ACs over CAPWAP tunnels.
Centralized forwarding is usually used to control wireless user
traffic in a centralized manner(AC). This forwarding mode
facilitates device deployment and controls all wireless user data
flows by aggregating traffic of all wireless users connected to APs
to an AC through CAPWAP data tunnels.
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Centralized forwarding
AC manages AP and user
Control wireless user traffic in a
centralized manner.
User data is transmitted between
AP and AC over CAPWAP tunnel
and forwarded to Internet after
decapsulated by AC.
AP connects to AC over layer 2/3
network
Concentrated forwarding mode is
commonly used for overlay
network deployment and used in
scenario that needs AC also to be
a user gateway.
RADIUS
server
Internet
Portal
server
Main AC
Aggregation
switch
VRRP
Standby AC
CAPWAP Tunnel
L2/L3 network
Hotspot n
Hotspot 1
STA
User data traffic
AP Management traffic
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AP 1
AP n
AP 1
AP n
Outline
Product introduction
Application introduction
Configuration
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Tunnel Configuration
Configure WLAN security policy (Optional)
AP Configuration
WLAN Groups
AP Group and WLAN Group mapping
WLAN-VLAN Association
Monitoring the AP status
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AP version
Tunnel Configuration
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AP Configuration
- Create new AP group.
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AP Configuration
- Add AP into group
Add AP to the specific AP group, here the MAC address is the Ethernet MAC of AP.
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AP Configuration
- Configure the wireless setting
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AP Configuration
- Import AP list via file
Sample:
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WLAN Groups
- Create new WLAN group
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WLAN Groups
- Edit the WLAN group
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WLAN Groups
- WLAN configuration sample (open SSID, concentrated forwarding)
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Continued
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WLAN-VLAN Association
Set the Inner VALN as the WLAN VLAN(in the previous sample, it is 2000), set the Outer VLAN as 0.
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-End
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