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Cisco IOS Wireless LAN Features Roadmap
Cisco IOS Wireless LAN Features Roadmap
This roadmap lists the features documented in the Cisco IOS Wireless LAN Configuration Guide and maps them to the modules in which they appear.
Roadmap History
This roadmap was first published on December 15, 2005. It was last updated on June 20, 2007.
Feature and Release Support
Table 1 lists Cisco IOS wireless LAN feature support for the following Cisco IOS software release trains:
•Cisco IOS Release 12.4T
Only features that were introduced or modified in Cisco IOS Release 12.4T or a later release appear in the table. Not all features may be supported in your Cisco IOS software release.
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Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS software release train also support that feature.
Table 1 Supported Cisco IOS Wireless LAN Features
Release Feature Name Feature Description Where Documented Cisco IOS Release 12.4(2)TBroadcast Key Rotation
This feature allows users to set a timeout for the shared broadcast key, which causes a new broadcast key to be generated.
Cisco Compatible Extensions Information Element
This feature allows a Cisco access point to inform
Cisco Compatible Extensions client devices about the
Cisco-compatible release version that the access point supports.Configurable Radio Transmit Power
This feature allows a user to set the transmit power of the access point.
IEEE 802.11 Wireless Standards Support
This feature provides support for IEEE 802.11 standards for wireless networking. Support for 802.11 standards allows you to set the Service Set Identifier (SSID), authentication type, channel selection, transmission rates, power-save mode, and security based on Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), among other configurable fields.
IEEE 802.11a Support
This feature provides support for 802.11a standards for wireless networking. Support for 802.11a standards allows you to set the SSID, authentication type, channel selection, transmission rates, power-save mode, and security based on WEP, among other configurable fields.
IEEE 802.11b Support
This feature provides support for 802.11a standards for wireless networking. Support for 802.11a standards allows you to set the SSID, authentication type, channel selection, transmission rates, power-save mode, and security based on WEP, among other configurable fields.
IEEE 802.11d Support
This feature allows the access point to inform 802.11d clients which settings the client should use to conform to local regulations.
IEEE 802.11g Support
This feature provides support for 802.11a standards for wireless networking. Support for 802.11a standards allows you to set the SSID, authentication type, channel selection, transmission rates, power-save mode, and security based on WEP, among other configurable fields.
MAC Address Local Authentication
This feature provides support for MAC authentication of users on an access point.
You can configure an access point to act as a local authentication server to provide authentication service for small wireless LANs without a RADIUS server or to provide backup authentication service in case of a WAN link or a server failure.
Multiple SSIDs
This feature allows a user to configure up to 10 SSIDs on Cisco 800 series access points and up to 16 SSIDs on Cisco 1800 series access points or access points equipped with the access point high-speed WAN interface card (AP HWIC), such as the Cisco 2800 and 3800 series access points.
RADIUS Server per SSID
This feature allows RADIUS servers to be specified on a
per-SSID basis.Configuring RADIUS or a Local Authenticator in a Wireless LAN
Transmit Power Control
This feature allows client devices to calculate the path loss and the transmit power necessary for the client to reach the access point, thereby extending client device battery life.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
This feature provides support for wireless fidelity protected access, which is a standards-based, interoperable security enhancement that increases the level of data protection and access control for existing and future wireless LAN systems.
Wireless Access Point High-Speed WAN Interface Card
This feature provides support for two new AP HWICs for the Cisco 1800, 2800, and 3800 series integrated services routers.
World Mode
This feature is only supported on the 2.4-GHz radio and automates client configuration of channel and transmit power settings allowing world-mode-enabled access points to configure the settings on world-mode-enabled clients.
Cisco IOS Release 12.4(6)TDynamic Frequency Selection and Transmit Power Control
This feature applies only to wireless access points shipped to Europe and Japan with 5-GHz radios.
You can prevent an access point from selecting specific groups of frequencies to avoid interfering with radar signals.
Cisco IOS Release 12.4(15)TAccess Point Link Role Flexibility
This feature allows access point radios to operate in a combination of radio roles, such as access point root, access point repeater, bridge root (with or without clients), bridge nonroot (with or without clients), and WGB.
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - CCMP
AES-CCMP is a symmetric block cipher that can encrypt and decrypt data using keys of 128, 192, and 256 bits. AES-CCMP is a superior to WEP encryption and is defined in the IEEE 802.11i standard.
Broadcast Key Rotation
This feature allows users to set a timeout for the shared broadcast key, causing a new broadcast key to be generated. This feature mitigates passive attacks that attempt to determine the broadcast key from weak initialization vectors.
IEEE 802.1x Authenticator
IEEE 802.1x is a client-server-based access control and authentication protocol that restricts unauthorized devices from connectiong to a LAN through publicly accessible ports.
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IEEE 802.1x Local Authentication Service for EAP-FAST.
This feature allows a Cisco IOS Software enabled device to authenticate wireless clients when connectivity to the AAA server is not available. It incorporates an IEEE 802.1x enabled RADIUS server that supports EAP-FAST authentication types into Cisco IOS software.
http://cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5853/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008067eaf6.html
Microsoft WPS IE SSIDL
This feature allows an access point to broadcast a list of configured SSIDs such as SSID Lists (SSIDL) in the Microsoft Wireless Provisioning Services Information Element (WPS IE). A client with the ability to read the SSIDL can alert the user to the availability of the SSIDs.
Configuring Multiple Basic Service Set Identifiers and Microsoft WPS IE SSIDL
Multiple Basic Service Set ID (BSSID)
This feature permits a single access point (AP) to appear to the wireless LAN (WLAN) as multiple virtual APs.
Configuring Multiple Basic Service Set Identifiers and Microsoft WPS IE SSIDL
NAC - L2 IEEE 802.1x
Network Admission Control (NAC) L2 IEEE 802.1x extends NAC support to layer 2 switches and wireless access points.
Universal Client Mode
This feature allows a wireless device to associate to other Cisco and third-party APs.
VLAN Assignment by Name
This feature provides the ability for the RADIUS server to assign an 802.11 client to a VLAN identifed by name.
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Required Elements
WMM provides enhancements over basic QoS mode.
Wireless Non-Root Bridge
This feature allows a wireless device to operate as the remote node in a point-to-point or point-to-multi-point network.
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