WLAN Services

A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) Service represents all the RF, authentication and QoS attributes of a wireless access service offered by the controller and its APs. A WLAN Service can be one of the following types:

• Standard — A conventional service. Only APs running ExtremeWireless software can be part of this WLAN Service. This type of service can be used as a Bridged at Controller, Bridged at AP, or Routed Topology. This type of service provides access for mobile stations. Roles can be associated with this type of WLAN service to create a VNS. Hotspot can be enabled for standard WLAN services.
• Third Party AP — A Wireless Service offered by third party APs. This type of service provides access for mobile stations. Roles can be assigned to this type of WLAN service to create a VNS.
• Dynamic Mesh and WDS (Static Mesh)— This is to configure a group of APs organized into a hierarchy for purposes of providing a Wireless Distribution Service. This type of service is in essence a wireless trunking service rather than a service that provides access for stations. As such, this service cannot have roles attached to it.
• Remote — A service that resides on the edge (foreign) controller. Pairing a remote service with a remoteable service on the designated home controller allows you to provision centralized WLAN Services in the mobility domain. This is known as centralized mobility.

The components of a WLAN Service map to the corresponding components of a VNS in previous releases. The administrator makes an explicit choice of the type of authentication to use on the WLAN Service. If the choice of authentication option conflicts with any other authentication or privacy choices, the WLAN Service cannot be enabled.