Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network offers a secure WLAN solution by combining the best-of-breed wireless standards and specifications to fulfill the need for scalable, reliable, and secure wireless networking and security services.

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network delivers the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment, and management for wireless LAN networks that is offered by any other wired LAN solution.

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution offers all the WLAN security features that were discussed previously in this chapter and provides comprehensive WLAN attack mitigation, as described in Table 12-3.

Some of the common security features offered by Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution are

• Enterprise-ready, standards-based WLAN network

• Support of IEEE 802.11 standards

• SSID, MAC authentication, and other common techniques

• Support for WPA, WPA2, and 802.11i

• Mutual authentication mechanisms

• Support for IEEE 802.1x and various EAP methods

• Support for TKIP and AES

• Support of Wireless NAC

• Support of Wireless IPS

• Support for radio resource management (RRM) to monitor over-the-air packets and alert the network management console of different types of threats, such as rogue access points, rogue clients, ad hoc networks, and wireless DoS attacks

• Addressing of known wireless attacks and provision of mitigation techniques

• Support of Management Frame Protection (MFP) for 802.11 management attack mitigation

Components of Cisco Unified Wireless Network

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network is composed of five interconnected elements that work together to deliver a unified enterprise-class wireless solution. The five interconnected elements are

• Client devices

• Access points

• Network unification

• Network management

• Mobility services

Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution provides a comprehensive integrated security solution to protect WLAN networks.