Privacy is a mechanism that protects data over wireless and wired networks, usually by encryption techniques.
Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless supports the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) standard common to conventional access points.
It also provides Wi-Fi Protected Access version 1 (WPA v.1) encryption, based on Pairwise Master Key (PMK) and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). The most secure encryption mechanism is WPA version 2, using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).