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Overview :
Aricent RSNA is a portable implementation of the 802.11i specification for Robust Security Network Association (RSNA) in Wireless LANs. The software is portable to different operating systems and wireless chipsets using well-defined external interfaces.
Figure 1. Aricent RSNA Architecture
Features :
- Provides Enhanced security using IEEE 802.11i-2004.
- Provides Confidentiality of user information transferred over wireless media.
- Supports 802.11 infrastructure networks.
- Authentication of IEEE 802.11 conformant devices.
- Implements Authenticator Key Management state machine in IEEE 802.11i-2004.
- Support for AKM (Authentication and Key Management) using pre-shared keys and an authentication server.
- Support for pre-authentication.
- Supports IEEE 802.1x EAPOL for greater security.
- Provides support for configuration and Management using SNMP and CLI Provides Configuration support for hardware/driver based TKIP and CCMP encryption.
- Utilizes hardware / driver encryption capability for enhanced performance.
- Seamlessly integrates with Aricent 802.11F based mobility implementation.
- Flexible for use in access point or WLAN switch / controller.
- Conforms to Future Software Architecture for Portability (FSAP2), thus ensuring highly portable code, which uses flexible buffer and timer management libraries.
Benefits :
Aricent RSNA reduces the time to market for OEMs and VARs who wish to incorporate the 802.11i RSNA functionality into their WLAN products.
802.11i RSNA provides the following key benefits in a WLAN environment:
- Enhanced network security.
- Confidentiality of valuable user information
- Interoperability.
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